This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Designing materials that adapt to their surroundings, respond to stimuli, and change shape ...

(Nanowerk News) In the quest to develop robots and interactive machines that are safe, adaptable, and intelligent like organisms in nature, researchers have increasingly focused attention on soft and ...

This is a schematic of the surface wrinkling formation process. Wrinkling and buckling at micro-scale are a popular phenomenon in stiff nano-film on compliant substrate due to external stimuli such as ...

Forming complex microscopic patterned materials typically requires complex techniques, such as lithography. But researchers in Poland have demonstrated that, if conditions are just right, a simple ...