Capillary Origami: Spontaneous Wrapping of a Droplet with an Elastic Sheet

by: Charlotte Py, Paul Reverdy, Lionel Doppler, José Bico, Benoît Roman, Charles N Baroud

Physical Review Letters, Vol. 98, No. 15. (2007)

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The interaction between elasticity and capillarity is used to produce three-dimensional structures through the wrapping of a liquid droplet by a planar sheet. The final encapsulated 3D shape is controlled by tailoring the initial geometry of the flat membrane. Balancing interfacial energy with elastic bending energy provides a critical length scale below which encapsulation cannot occur, which is verified experimentally. This length is found to depend on the thickness as h3/2, a scaling favorable to miniaturization which suggests a new way of mass production of 3D micro- or nanoscale objects.

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