Harnessing viscoelasticity and instabilities for tuning wavy patterns in soft layered composites

V. Slesarenko & S. Rudykh

Soft Matter — Vol. 12, Issue 16, pp. 3677-3682

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Abstract

We harness instabilities and viscoelasticity to tune wavy patterns in soft layered composites. Through experiments on 3D printed soft laminates, and through numerical simulations, we demonstrate the existence of various instability-induced wavy patterns corresponding to identical deformed states of identical soft composites.