Joining two materials with an adhesive is an extremely common activity, but is most often
irreversible. However, emerging and current applications ranging from consumer and …

As we enter the age of designer matter—where objects can morph and change shape on
command—what tools do we need to create shape-shifting structures? At the heart of an …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201306259 world” surfaces which have large scale roughness. To
generate high forces on millimeter and centimeter length scales, geckos posess a unique …

Thin polymer films may undergo a wide variety of elastic instabilities that include global
buckling modes, wrinkling and creasing of surfaces, and snapping transitions. Traditionally …

A non-fractured, high aspect ratio wrinkled surface is successfully fabricated. Building upon
recently developed models of the localization transition and the current knowledge of …

High‐aspect‐ratio shape‐memory polymer (SMP) pillar arrays are investigated as a new
type of dry adhesive based on buckling and interlocking mechanism. When two identical …

The adhesive properties of a material can be greatly affected simply by wrinkling its surface.
We show the importance of selecting the wrinkle feature sizes (amplitude, b; and …

Surface wrinkles driven by elastic instabilities have attracted significant interest in the field of
materials science and engineering. They are simple and readily fabricated with various …

Wrinkling of spherical surfaces represents a promising pathway for the formation of complex
hierarchical structures and patterns. Using a swelling-based approach, we demonstrate the …

The different mechanisms contributing to adhesion between two polymer surfaces are
summarized and described in individual examples, which represent either seminal works in …