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Surface Engineering: Locally and Dynamically Controllable Surface Topography Through the Use of Particle‐Enhanced Soft Composites (Adv. Funct. Mater. 24/2015)
Author(s) -
Guttag Mark,
Boyce Mary C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201570158
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , composite number , surface (topology) , particle (ecology) , matrix (chemical analysis) , nanotechnology , geometry , oceanography , mathematics , geology
Creating tunable and reversible surfaces is an interesting challenge with no single solution. On page 3641, M. Guttag and M. C. Boyce present a new approach using a composite of stiff particles embedded into a soft matrix which provides a wide range of tunable and locally controllable surface topographies. By applying an external load to the composite, complex surface topographies take shape. (Photo credit: Felice C. Frankel.)