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March 10, 2016

UMass Amherst team offers new, simpler law of complex wrinkle patterns
Amherst MA (SPX) Mar 08, 2016
In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oxford University describe a new, more general law for predicting the wavelength of complex wrinkle patterns, including those found on curved surfaces, plus experimental results to support it. The work is expected to help materials scientists to use wrinkles to sculpt surface topography, or to use the wrinkles on surfaces to infer the properties of the underlying materials such as textiles and biological tissues. Phys ... read more

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