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Stress‐Induced Self‐Assembly of Complex Three Dimensional Structures by Elastic Membranes
Author(s) -
Jin Yu,
Wang Nuoxin,
Yuan Bo,
Sun Jiashu,
Li Mengmeng,
Zheng Wenfu,
Zhang Wei,
Jiang Xingyu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201300929
Subject(s) - spiral (railway) , strips , membrane , tube (container) , stress (linguistics) , layer (electronics) , materials science , computer science , nanotechnology , mechanical engineering , engineering drawing , composite material , engineering , chemistry , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy
Based on the stress‐induced rolling membrane technique , complex three‐dimensional structures are designed, such as tubes with wrinkled walls, tubes‐in‐a‐tube, and spiral structures. Narrow PDMS strips are used instead of the whole PDMS top layer, thus obtaining tubes made of the bottom polymer.