Mechanical Self-Assembly Science and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chen, Xi. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mechanics, applied.; Biomedical engineering.; Nanotechnology.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Biomedical Engineering.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4562-3

Mechanical Self-Assembly: Science and Applications introduces a novel category of self-assembly driven by mechanical forces. This book discusses self-assembly in various types of small material structures including thin films, surfaces, and micro- and nano-wires, as well as the practice's poten...

Table of Contents:

• Mechanical Self-Assembly in Nature
• Mechanical Self-Assembly vs. Morphogenesis
• Shaping by Active Deformation of Soft Elastic Sheets
• Ion Beam Induced Self-Assembled Wrinkles
• A Kinetics Approach to Surface Wrinkling of Elastic Thin Films
• Crease Instability on the Surface of a Solid
• Buckling Delamination of Compressed Thin Films
• Delaminated Film Buckling Microchannels
• Mechanical Self-Assembly on Curved Substrates. � �.