Secrets of surfaces' wrinkling, folding, creasing and delaminating are unraveled
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 10:50
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.