Magneto-active elastic shells with tunable buckling strength

Predicting and controlling the (in)stability of thin shells are important tasks in many practical applications but hampered by the presence of imperfections. Here Yan et al. show that when the material composition is magnetic the conditions for collapse can simply be readjusted with external fields.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dong Yan, Matteo Pezzulla, Lilian Cruveiller, Arefeh Abbasi, Pedro M. Reis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22776-y