Mechanical Self-Assembly: Science and Applications introduces a novel category of self-assembly driven by mechanical forces. This book discusses self-assembly in various types of small material structures including thin films, surfaces, and micro- and nano-wires, as well as the practice's potential application in micro and nanoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, and biomedical engineering. The mechanical self-assembly process is inherently quick, simple, and cost-effective, as well as accessible to a large number of materials, such as curved surfaces for forming three-dimensional small structures -Source other than Library of Congress.
Mechanical Self-Assembly in Nature /Xi Chen, Jie Yin --Mechanical Self-Assembly vs. Morphogenesis /Xi Chen, Jie Yin --Shaping by Active Deformation of Soft Elastic Sheets /Eran Sharon --Ion Beam-Induced Self-Assembled Wrinkles /Myoung-Woon Moon, Chansoo Kim, Ashkan Vaziri --A Kinetics Approach to Surface Wrinkling of Elastic Thin Films /Rui Huang --Crease Instability on the Surface of a Solid /Wei Hong, Fangliang Gao --Buckling Delamination of Compressed Thin Films /Myoung-Woon Moon --Delaminated Film Buckling Microchannels /Alex A. Volinsky, Patrick Waters --Mechanical Self-Assembly on Curved Substrates /Xi Chen, Jie Yin.