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 …

The English-language dictionary defines wrinkles as “small furrows, ridges, or creases on a
normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking”. In this paper we review …

Subject to a compressive membrane force, a film bonded to a compliant substrate often
forms a pattern of wrinkles. This paper studies such wrinkles in a layered structure used in …

We present detailed experimental and theoretical studies of the mechanics of thin buckled
films on compliant substrates. In particular, accurate measurements of the wavelengths and …

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 …

A thin metal film vapor deposited on thick elastomer substrate develops an equi-biaxial
compressive stress state when the system is cooled due to the large thermal expansion …

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 …

Emerging forms of soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics promise to revolutionize the
electronics industries of the future offering radically new products that combine multiple …

Stretchable electronics are becoming an important branch in the field of electronics, with a
rapidly growing number of studies on highly deformable circuits that can handle large tensile …

Mechanical buckling usually means catastrophic failure in structural mechanics systems.
However, controlled buckling of thin films on compliant substrates has been used to …