Open AccessSpontaneous formation of stable aligned wrinkling patterns
Author(s) -
Edwin P. Chan,
Alfred J. Crosby
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
soft matter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 170
eISSN - 1744-6848
pISSN - 1744-683X
DOI - 10.1039/b515628a
Subject(s) - elastomer , surface (topology) , materials science , moduli , soft materials , composite material , soft matter , nanotechnology , geometry , physics , mathematics , chemical engineering , engineering , colloid , quantum mechanics
We introduce a new methodology to produce aligned, or patterned, surface wrinkles on a soft elastomer sans topography. The surface buckles orient through the manipulation of the local stress distributions, which we control by defining specific regions of local differences in the elastic moduli of the material.
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