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 …

Surface instabilities in soft matter have been the subject of increasingly innovative research
aimed at better understanding the physics of their formation and their utility in patterning …

The generation of nano-microstructured polymer film surfaces has been a challenge during
the last decades. Advances in the fabrication of structured polymer surfaces to obtain micro …

Periodically patterned surfaces can cause special surface properties and are employed as
functional building blocks in many devices, yet remaining challenges in fabrication …

Surface wrinkles are commonly observed in polymer films driven by mechanical instability
when the stress exceeds a critical value. Recently, wrinkling instability has been utilized as a …

Compressing a thin elastic film attached to a thick compliant substrate can lead to buckling
instability. Two commonly observed buckling modes, buckle-delamination and wrinkling …

Wrinkled surfaces have attracted enormous interest during the past years due to their
various wrinkling patterns and impressive multifunctional properties. With the growing …

The nanoconfinement effects of glassy polymer thin films on their thermal and mechanical
properties have been investigated thoroughly, especially with an emphasis on its altered …

Self-organizing patterns with micrometre-scale features are promising for the large-area
fabrication of photonic devices and scattering layers in optoelectronics. Pattern formation …

The uncontrolled development of nanoscale roughness during plasma exposure of polymer
surfaces is a major issue in the field of semiconductor processing. In this paper, we …