Wrinkling is a ubiquitous form of mechanical instability, occurring in such widely different systems as skin and lava flows. Hierarchical wrinkling leading to topographical features, with length scales spanning five orders of magnitude, has now been observed and harnessed in an artificial skin.
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Huck, W. Hierarchical wrinkling. Nature Mater 4, 271–272 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1356
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