Abstract Development of polymer-based smart materials, which can autonomously alter their
physical and/or chemical properties when exposed to external stimuli, is a thriving research …

Transforming flat sheets into three-dimensional structures has emerged as an exciting
manufacturing paradigm on a broad range of length scales. Among other advantages, this …

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

Morphological instabilities and surface wrinkling of soft materials such as gels and biological
tissues are of growing interest to a number of academic disciplines including soft …

Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Chiral nanostructures from metals and semiconductors attract wide interest as components
for polarization-enabled optoelectronic devices. Similarly to other fields of nanotechnology …

Shape-shifting of flat materials into the desired 3D configuration is an alternative design
route for fabrication of complex 3D shapes, which provides many benefits such as access to …

Long leaves in terrestrial plants and their submarine counterparts, algal blades, have a
typical, saddle-like midsurface and rippled edges. To understand the origin of these …

The process by which spatial variations in growth transform two-dimensional elastic
membranes into three-dimensional shapes is both a fundamentally interesting mechanism …

Non-Euclidean plates are plates (“stacks” of identical surfaces) whose two-dimensional
intrinsic geometry is not Euclidean, ie cannot be realized in a flat configuration. They can be …