Nucleation and growth is the dominant relaxation mechanism driving first-order phase transitions. In two-dimensional flat systems, nucleation has been applied to a wide range of problems in physics, ...

Inspired by the cells in leaves that control leaf curvature to regulate water loss, researchers present flat panels that can morph into a stiff, complex 3D structure with a different Gaussian ...

Despite the fact that the equations governing how surfaces wrinkle have been known for some time 3, they remain impossible to solve in all but the simplest cases (even for a Hookean material, for ...