Morphogenesis through elastic phase separation in a pneumatic surface
Soft Condensed Matter
2020-12-07 v1 Classical Physics
Abstract
We report a phenomenon of phase separation that relates in many aspects to Yves Couder's work: an inflatable architectured elastomer plate, expected to expand homogeneously in its plane, buckles instead widely out-of-plane into very complex shape when internal pressure is applied. We show that this morphogenetic pattern formation is due to a two-dimensional elastic phase separation, which induces incompatible patchy non-Euclidean reference metric.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.02252,
title = {Morphogenesis through elastic phase separation in a pneumatic surface},
author = {Emmanuel Siéfert and Benoît Roman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02252},
year = {2020}
}