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1Nanosystem Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8565, Japan. ohzono-takuya@aist.go.jp.
Soft Matter
|August 7, 2014
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.
