2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Surface energy-driven crumpling transition in a thin sheet under compression
Aashna Chawla, Deepak Kumar
In our common experience, crumpling a sheet requires external compressive force and leads to a random network of folds. However, thin sheets have been theoretically predicted to sp…
cond-mat.soft2024
Geometry-induced friction at a soft interface
Aashna Chawla, Deepak Kumar
Soft and biological matter come in a variety of shapes and geometries. When soft surfaces that do not fit into each other due to a mismatch in Gaussian curvatures form an interface…