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 …

This review summarizes progress toward programming two-dimensional (2D) polymer
sheets which respond to a variety of external stimuli to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes …

Mechanical instabilities in soft materials, specifically wrinkling, have led to the formation of
unique surface patterns for a wide range of applications that are related to surface …

An unclonable, fingerprint-mimicking anti-counterfeiting strategy is presented that encrypts
polymeric particles with randomly generated silica film wrinkles. The generated wrinkle …

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 …

Nature has demonstrated that surface patterns can control adhesion and release. For
example, the attachment devices of geckos [1, 2] and some insects [3, 4] are decorated with …

Hydrogels with controlled surface patterns are useful for a range of applications, including in
microdevices, sensors, coatings, and adhesives. In this work, a simple and robust method to …

Symmetry-breaking transitions associated with the buckling and folding of curved
multilayered surfaces—which are common to a wide range of systems and processes such …