Abstract: Subject to a compressive membrane stress, an elastic film bonded on a substrate can become unstable, forming wrinkles, creases or delaminated buckles. Further increasing the compressive stress can induce advanced modes of ...

Abstract: Structures of thin films bonded on thick substrates are abundant in biological systems and engineering applications. Mismatch strains due to expansion of the films or shrinkage of the substrates can induce various modes ...

Abstract: Development of soft electromechanical materials is critical for several tantalizing applications such as human-like robots, stretchable electronics, actuators, energy harvesting, among others. Soft dielectrics can be easily ...

Abstract: Mechanochemically responsive (MCR) polymers have been designed to possess unconventional properties such as changing colors, selfhealing, and releasing catalysts under deformation. These properties of MCR polymers stem ...