Plasmonic thermal emitters for dynamically tunable infrared radiation

A Kazemi Moridani, R Zando, W Xie… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic bimetallic microstructures using nickel and gold are fabricated on an elastomeric
substrate by use of strain‐induced buckling of the metallic layers, which can be compatible …

Bio-inspired hierarchical micro-and nano-wrinkles obtained via mechanically directed self-assembly on shape-memory polymers

S Schauer, M Worgull, H Hölscher - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by complex multi-functional leaf and petal surfaces, we introduce a mechanically
directed self-assembly process to create linearly oriented micro-and nanosized surface …

Post-wrinkle bifurcations in elastic bilayers with modest contrast in modulus

A Auguste, L Jin, Z Suo, RC Hayward - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Wrinkles, folds, creases and other elastic surface instabilities play a crucial role in many
systems in nature and engineering. While surface instabilities of ideal bilayer structures with …

Surface modification of anisotropic dielectric elastomer actuators with uni-and bi-axially wrinkled carbon electrodes for wettability control

K Jun, D Kim, S Ryu, IK Oh - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Interest in soft actuators for next-generation electronic devices, such as wearable
electronics, haptic feedback systems, rollable flexible displays, and soft robotics, is rapidly …

Programmable, reversible and repeatable wrinkling of shape memory polymer thin films on elastomeric substrates for smart adhesion

Y Wang, J Xiao - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Programmable, reversible and repeatable wrinkling of shape memory polymer (SMP) thin
films on elastomeric polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrates is realized, by utilizing the …

Sub-100 nm wrinkling of polydimethylsiloxane by double frontal oxidation

M Nania, F Foglia, OK Matar, JT Cabral - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate nanoscale wrinkling on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) at sub-100 nm length
scales via a (double) frontal surface oxidation coupled with a mechanical compression. The …

Buckling analysis and buckling control of thin films on shape memory polymer substrate

Y He, Y Li, Z Liu, KM Liew - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a theoretical study and finite element simulation for the buckling of a
thin film on the compliant substrate. First, we develop a continuum mechanics approach for …

A two-dimensional Fourier-series finite element for wrinkling analysis of thin films on compliant substrates

Q Huang, R Xu, Y Liu, H Hu, G Giunta, S Belouettar… - Thin-Walled …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, an efficient Fourier-series finite element solution framework is proposed to
simulate the wrinkling phenomena in two-dimensional film/substrate system. In the method …

Dimension-controlled formation of crease patterns on soft solids

S Tang, B Gao, Z Zhou, Q Gu, T Guo - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft solids such as PDMS or silicone are widely needed in many advanced applications
such as flexible electronics and medical engineering. The ability to control the structure and …

Onset of swell-induced surface instability of hydrogel layers with depth-wise graded material properties

Z Wu, N Bouklas, Y Liu, R Huang - Mechanics of Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
A rich variety of instability patterns have been observed on the surface of hydrogel layers
with depth-wise variation in material properties. In this paper, a state space method and a …