In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric
objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and …

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) that rely on structural vibrations have many
important applications, ranging from oscillators and actuators, to energy harvesters and …

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 …

Vibrational microplatforms that exploit complex three-dimensional (3D) architectures
assembled via the controlled compressive buckling technique represent promising …

A study was conducted to understand the effects of membrane shape, thickness, contact
angle, surface tension and large deflection on capillary origami. For experiments, square …

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 …

We present a numerical framework bringing together a structural and a surface-energy
minimization model to compute nano-and microorigami self-folding processes, that are three …

Two-dimensional (2-D) atomically thin graphene has exhibited overwhelming excellent
properties over its bulk counterpart graphite, yet the broad applications and explorations of …

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 …