The smectic order of wrinkles

Autor: Hillel Aharoni, Desislava V. Todorova, Octavio Albarrán, Lucas Goehring, Randall D. Kamien, Eleni Katifori
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15809
Popis: A thin elastic sheet can develop wrinkles which arrange into patterns similar to those characteristic of liquid crystals. Here the authors use this analogy to propose a mapping between the elastic sheet problem and the smectic liquid crystal problem which can enable a better understanding of wrinkling.
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