Reinforced shape-tunable microwrinkles formed on a porous-film-embedded elastomer surface.

Ohzono, T; Hirai, Y; Suzuki, K; Shimomura, M; Uchida, N · Soft Matter · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A new structural design is proposed for wrinkling to improve mechanical durability by exploiting a porous polymer film embedded on the surface of an elastomer, which acts as a hard layer, buckles into wrinkles and effectively suppresses fatal failures such as delamination and cracking.