A paradigm shift has emerged over the last decade pointing to an exciting research area
dealing with the harnessing of elastic structural instabilities for'smart'purposes in a variety of …

Many objects in nature and industry are wrapped in a thin sheet to enhance their chemical,
mechanical, or optical properties. Similarly, there are a variety of methods for wrapping, from …

Imposing curvature on crystalline sheets, such as 2D packings of colloids or proteins, or
covalently bonded graphene leads to distinct types of structural instabilities. The first type …

How much energy does it take to stamp a thin elastic shell flat? Motivated by recent
experiments on the wrinkling patterns of floating shells, we develop a rigorous method via Γ …

Complex textured surfaces occur in nature and industry, from fingerprints to lithography-
based micropatterns. Wrinkling by confinement to an incompatible substrate is an attractive …

Postbuckling response, long considered mainly as a failure limit state is gaining increased
interest for smart applications, such as energy harvesting, frequency tuning, sensing …

Thin elastic films can spontaneously attach to liquid interfaces, offering a platform for
tailoring their physical, chemical, and optical properties. Current understanding of the …

This paper describes a method for manufacturing complex three-dimensional curved
structures by self-folding layered materials. Our main focus is to first show that the material …

Nanoparticle monolayer sheets are ultrathin inorganic-organic hybrid materials that combine
highly controllable optical and electrical properties with mechanical flexibility and …

Shells, when confined, can deform in a broad assortment of shapes and patterns, often quite
dissimilar to what is produced by their flat counterparts (plates). In this work we discuss the …