Graphene is a 2D honeycomb lattice consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms. Graphene
has become one of the most preferred materials for sensor development due to its …

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 …

Metamaterial-based optical cloaks have thus far used volumetric distribution of the material
properties to gradually bend light and thereby obscure the cloaked region. Hence, they are …

Unlike flat sheets, crumpled paper balls have both high free volume and high compressive
strength, and can tightly pack without significantly reducing the area of accessible surface …

Graphene is a two-dimensional new allotrope of carbon, which is stimulating great curiosity
due to its superior mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties. Particularly …

Graphene-metals composites are novel structures with improved properties intensively
studied in the last decades. In this work, the results of molecular dynamics simulation of the …

Crumpling is potentially a quick and efficient way to pack sheet-like electronic devices at a
high compression ratio. However, crumpling is not applicable to conventional electronic …

Crumpled systems (CSs) can be used as building blocks of mechanical metamaterials with
low sensitivity to defects. But to exploit the potential of CSs for novel applications, extensive …

Upon crumpling, graphene sheets yield intriguing hierarchical structures with high
resistance to compression and aggregation, garnering a great deal of attention in recent …

Graphene holds promise as an ultracapacitor due to its high specific surface area and
intrinsic capacitance. To exploit both, a maximum surface area must be accessible while the …