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Wrinkled clean

Understanding how natural surfaces repel foulants by wrinkling seems like a simple matter of elasticity. But the nonlinear behaviours that emerge from dimensional effects make for some intriguing new physics.

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Diamant, H. Wrinkled clean. Nature Phys 14, 878–879 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0212-y

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