Capillary folding is the process of folding planar objects into three-dimensional (3-D)
structures using capillary force. It has many important industrial applications, eg the …

Capillary origami takes advantage of the surface forces of a liquid drop to assemble thin film
structures. After a structure is assembled, the drop then evaporates away. The transient …

Elastocapillarity has attracted increasing interest in recent years due to its important roles in
many industrial applications. In this work, we derive a thermodynamically consistent …

An important area of microfluidics is the creation and manipulation of small droplets. This is
commonly done using microchannels or electrowetting. Recently a new method is proposed …

We consider the capillary folding of thin elastic sheets with pinned contact lines in three
dimensions. The folding occurs due to the interaction between the elastic sheet and a …

Microfluidics, fluid dynamics on the micro-scale, has been an active area of research due to
its applications-separating particles, mixing fluids, and generating microdroplets. This thesis …

A thin film is a material that is many orders of magnitude thinner than it is long or wide. They
are commonly found in many forms and have been adapted to a wide variety of uses. The art …