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Geometry-Driven Folding Of A Floating Annular Sheet, Joseph Paulsen, Vincent Démery, K. Buğra Toga, Zhanlong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Benny Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon
Geometry-Driven Folding Of A Floating Annular Sheet, Joseph Paulsen, Vincent Démery, K. Buğra Toga, Zhanlong Qiu, Thomas P. Russell, Benny Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon
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Predicting the large-amplitude deformations of thin elastic sheets is difficult due to the complications of self contact, geometric nonlinearities, and a multitude of low-lying energy states. We study a simple twodimensional setting where an annular polymer sheet floating on an air-water interface is subjected to different tensions on the inner and outer rims. The sheet folds and wrinkles into many distinct morphologies that break axisymmetry. These states can be understood within a recent geometric approach for determining the gross shape of extremely bendable yet inextensible sheets by extremizing an appropriate area functional. Our analysis explains the remarkable feature that the …
Plasmonic Nanogels With Robustly Tunable Optical Properties, Tao Cong, Satvik N. Wani, Georo Zhou, Elia Baszczuk, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
Plasmonic Nanogels With Robustly Tunable Optical Properties, Tao Cong, Satvik N. Wani, Georo Zhou, Elia Baszczuk, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering - All Scholarship
Low viscosity fluids with tunable optical properties can be processed to manufacture thin film and interfaces for molecular detection, light trapping in photovoltaics and reconfigurable optofluidic devices. In this work, self-assembly in wormlike micelle solutions is used to uniformly distribute various metallic nanoparticles to produce stable suspensions with localized, multiple wavelength or broad-band optical properties. Their spectral response can be robustly modified by varying the species, concentration, size and/or shape of the nanoparticles. Structure, rheology and optical properties of these plasmonic nanogels as well as their potential applications to efficient photovoltaics design are discussed.