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Method puts wrinkles in neat little rows

New process creates precisely ordered polymer zigzags

By Meghan Rosen

- More than 2 years ago

Wrinkles aren’t just for raisins and soggy fingertips.

By controlling the release rebound of a stretched surface back to its original shape, MIT researchers have figured out how to create orderly patterns of microscopic wrinkles. Jorge Luis Yague and Felice Frankel

A team of MIT scientists has figured out how to create perfectly ordered furrows and folds that could be used for stretchable electronics, sticky surfaces or antireflective coatings.