@article {837406,
	title = {Rational Design of Mechano-Responsive Optical Materials by Fine Tuning the Evolution of Strain-Dependent Wrinkling Patterns},
	journal = {Adv. Optical Mater.},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2013},
	note = {This work was supported by U.S. AFOSR Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative under award number FA9550{\textendash}09{\textendash}1{\textendash}0669- DOD35CAP. Part of this work was performed at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Harvard University supported by the NSF under award no. ECS-0335765. We thank Prof. John Hutchinson for discussions of the theoretical explanations, Chuck Hoberman for discussions of the applications of wrinkled PDMS, and Dr. Alison Grinthal for the critical comments on the manuscript. We thank Tom Blough for the design and fabrication of customized stretching devices and frames and Dr. James C. Weaver for the graphical illustrations of wrinkled PDMS sheets.},
	pages = {381-388},
	abstract = {Rational design strategies for mechano-responsive optical material systems are created by introducing a simple experimental system that can continuously vary the state of bi-axial stress to induce various wrinkling patterns, including stripes, labyrinths, herringbones, and rarely observed checkerboards, that can dynamically tune the optical properties. In particular, a switching of two orthogonally oriented stripe wrinkle patterns from oxidized polydimethylsiloxane around the critical strain value is reported, as well as the coexistence of these wrinkles forming elusive checkerboard patterns, which are predicted only in previous simulations. These strain-induced wrinkle patterns give rise to dynamic changes in optical transmittance and diffraction patterns. A theoretical description of the observed pattern formation is presented which accounts for the residual stress in the membrane and allows for the fine-tuning of the window of switching of the orthogonal wrinkles. Applications of wrinkle-induced changes in optical properties are demonstrated, including a mechanically responsive instantaneous privacy screen and a transparent sheet that reversibly reveals a message or graphic and dynamically switches the transmittance when stretched and released.},
	doi = {10.1002/adom.201300034},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201300034},
	author = {Kim, P. and Hu, Y. and J. Alvarenga and Kolle, M. and Suo, Z. and Aizenberg, J.}
}
