Dendritic structures that emerge during the growth of thin films are a major obstacle in large-area fabrication, a key step towards commercialization. However, current methods of studying dendrites ...

The use of the soft substrate hexagonal boron nitride reduces damage to the atomic structure caused by strain, allowing materials to keep their conductive properties as films as thin as 12 nm.

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Soft materials are materials that can be easily deformed by thermal stresses or thermal fluctuations at about room temperature. Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids ...

Empa researchers are working on producing artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a ...

Until now, artificial gels have either managed to replicate high stiffness or natural skin’s self-healing properties, but not both. Now, a team of researchers from Aalto University and the University ...

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In previous studies of thin film wrinkling on soft substrates, the mechanics models usually assume ... the first time the scaling of controlled nonlinear buckling processes in materials with ...

Thin films can be made from a variety of materials, including metals (e.g., gold, silver), oxides (e.g., silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide), and semiconductors (e.g ...