Surface wrinkling: a versatile platform for measuring thin‐film properties

JY Chung, AJ Nolte, CM Stafford - Advanced materials, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Wrinkled interfaces: Taking advantage of surface instabilities to pattern polymer surfaces

J Rodriguez-Hernandez - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Tough and conductive nacre‐inspired MXene/epoxy layered bulk nanocomposites

H Wang, R Lu, J Yan, J Peng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing quest in materials science has been the development of tough epoxy resin
nanocomposites for use in numerous applications. Inspired by nacre, here we report tough …

Tailoring the molecular structure of crosslinked polymers for pervaporation desalination

YL Xue, J Huang, CH Lau, B Cao, P Li - Nature communications, 2020‏ - nature.com
Polymer crosslinking imbues chemical stability to thin films at the expense of lower
molecular transportation rates. Here in this work we deployed molecular dynamics …

Effective antifogging coating from hydrophilic/hydrophobic polymer heteronetwork

J Shi, L Xu, D Qiu - Advanced Science, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fogging on optical devices may severely impair vision, resulting in unacceptable adverse
consequences. Hydrophilic coatings can prevent surface fogging by instantly facilitating …

Structural colour using organized microfibrillation in glassy polymer films

MM Ito, AH Gibbons, D Qin, D Yamamoto, H Jiang… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
The formation of microscopic cavities and microfibrils at stress hotspots in polymers is
typically undesirable and is a contributor to material failure. This type of stress crazing is …

Harnessing surface wrinkle patterns in soft matter

S Yang, K Khare, PC Lin - Advanced Functional Materials, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Formation mechanism of high-density, flattened polymer nanolayers adsorbed on planar solids

N Jiang, J Shang, X Di, MK Endoh, T Koga - Macromolecules, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Thermal annealing is one of the most indispensable polymer fabrication processes and
plays essential roles in controlling morphologies and properties of polymeric materials. We …

Wrinkling instabilities in polymer films and their applications

CM Chen, S Yang - Polymer International, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Wrinkle to fold transition: influence of the substrate response

F Brau, P Damman, H Diamant, TA Witten - Soft Matter, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Spatially confined rigid membranes reorganize their morphology in response to imposed
constraints. Slight compression of a rigid membrane resting on a soft foundation creates a …