2 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Isometric Incompatibility in Growing Elastic Sheets
Yafei Zhang, Michael Moshe, Eran Sharon
Geometric incompatibility, the inability of a material's rest state to be realized in Euclidean space, underlies shape formation in natural and synthetic thin sheets. Classical Gau…
cond-mat.soft2025
Midveins regulate the shape formation of drying leaves
Kexin Guo, Yafei Zhang, Massimo Paradiso +3
Dried leaves in nature often exhibit curled and crumpled morphologies, typically attributed to internal strain gradients that produce dome-like shapes. However, the origin of these…