Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressure

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 13:28 in Physics & Chemistry

Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Santiago in Chile have explained, for the first time, the physics that governs how thin materials at scales millions of times different in thickness make the transition from wrinkles into folds under compression.

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