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Smart soft materials that can flexibly respond to external multi-physics stimuli, have shown intriguing applications in shape-morphing and morphology control. Here, we present tunable wrinkling patterns in core-shell spheres under thermal load via controlling the orientation of director in nematic liquid crystal polymer (LCP). To analyze nonlinear instability and morphological evolution of LCP shell/core spheres, we develop a shallow core-shell model that accounts for director-induced anisotropic spontaneous strains.

Liu, M., Wu, J., Gan, Y., Hanaor, D. A., & Chen, C. Q. (2016). Evaporation limited radial capillary penetration in porous media. Langmuir, 32(38), 9899-9904.

 I would like to share our recent research work on FCC metallic nanowires, which is published in Journal of Physics : Condensed Matters (IOP) . The abstract of the paper is given below. Further details can be found at

Vijay Kumar Sutrakar et al 2012 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24 015401 

doi:10.1088/0953-8984/24/1/015401

Abstract: