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 …

Nature offers a plethora of astonishing examples of shapes and functions from the aspects of
both simplicity and complexity. The creation of synthetic systems that can morph in a …

Leaf photosynthesis, coral mineralization, and trabecular bone growth depend on triply
periodic minimal surfaces (TPMSs) with hyperboloidal structure on every surface point with …

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 …

Programmable shape-shifting materials can take different physical forms to achieve
multifunctionality in a dynamic and controllable manner. Although morphing a shape from …

Soft materials consist of basic units that are significantly larger than an atom but much
smaller than the overall dimensions of the sample. The label “soft condensed matter” …

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 …

Biological functions in living systems are closely related to their geometries and
morphologies. Toroidal structures, which widely exist in nature, present interesting features …

The purpose of the research is to describe the swelling-induced large deformations in
polymer gels: a theoretical model is developed, and then implemented and solved using the …

Lotus leaves floating on water usually experience short-wavelength edge wrinkling that
decays toward the center, while the leaves growing above water normally morph into a …