New research provides a general formula for understanding how layered materials form different surface patterns
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 09:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The process of wrinkle formation is familiar to anyone who has ever sat in a bathtub a little too long. But exactly why layered materials sometimes form one kind of wrinkly pattern or another—or even other variations, such as creases, folds, or delaminated buckles—has now been explained at a fundamental level by researchers at MIT.