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Sharp Tips from Crumples and Capillary Bridges

  • Harnessing Instabilities in Soft Material Films and Interfaces
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We describe two techniques to create sharp tips. The first involves the buckling of thin metal films deposited on soft, stretchable substrates. The second involves the formation of narrow necked capillary bridges.

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  1. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, California, 94304, USA

    Sanjiv Sambandan

  2. Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India

    Sanjiv Sambandan

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Sambandan, S. Sharp Tips from Crumples and Capillary Bridges. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1301, 9–13 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2011.538

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