Morphological instabilities and surface wrinkling of soft materials such as gels and biological
tissues are of growing interest to a number of academic disciplines including soft …

Nature offers a plethora of astonishing examples of shapes and functions from the aspects of
both simplicity and complexity. The creation of synthetic systems that can morph in a …

The three-dimensional patterns of surface wrinkling on a core-shell soft sphere are
investigated through buckling and postbuckling analyses under differential tissue growth or …

Crumpling an ordinary thin sheet transforms it into a structure with unusual mechanical
behaviors, such as enhanced rigidity, emission of crackling noise, slow relaxations, and …

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 …

Machine learning has gained widespread attention as a powerful tool to identify structure in
complex, high-dimensional data. However, these techniques are ostensibly inapplicable for …

We observe nonmonotonic aging and memory effects, two hallmarks of glassy dynamics, in
two disordered mechanical systems: crumpled thin sheets and elastic foams. Under fixed …

Mechanical metamaterials such as origami or ordered 3D printed structures have shown
tremendous applications in science and technology. However, the main disadvantage of …

Elastic sheets offer a path to encapsulating a droplet of one fluid in another that is different
from that of traditional molecular or particulate surfactants. In wrappings of fluids by sheets of …

Bulk carbon nanomaterials based on graphene and other sp2 carbon nanopolymorphs are
structures with a low density but high resistance to compression. These materials are …