(Nanowerk News) Because of their unique physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties, two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted tremendous attention in the past decades. After revealing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract For a class of variational integrals from 2D nonlinear elasticity, we prove that any $W^{2,2}\cap C^{1 ...

The complicated interplay of elasticity and topology makes it difficult to build a robust picture of how topology affects the rigidity and elastic response of thin shells. When the underlying sheet is ...