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Fabrication of slender elastic shells by the coating of curved surfaces

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, April 2016
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Title
Fabrication of slender elastic shells by the coating of curved surfaces
Published in
Nature Communications, April 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms11155
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Authors

A. Lee, P. -T. Brun, J. Marthelot, G. Balestra, F. Gallaire, P. M. Reis

Abstract

Various manufacturing techniques exist to produce double-curvature shells, including injection, rotational and blow molding, as well as dip coating. However, these industrial processes are typically geared for mass production and are not directly applicable to laboratory research settings, where adaptable, inexpensive and predictable prototyping tools are desirable. Here, we study the rapid fabrication of hemispherical elastic shells by coating a curved surface with a polymer solution that yields a nearly uniform shell, upon polymerization of the resulting thin film. We experimentally characterize how the curing of the polymer affects its drainage dynamics and eventually selects the shell thickness. The coating process is then rationalized through a theoretical analysis that predicts the final thickness, in quantitative agreement with experiments and numerical simulations of the lubrication flow field. This robust fabrication framework should be invaluable for future studies on the mechanics of thin elastic shells and their intrinsic geometric nonlinearities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 118 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 30%
Student > Master 16 13%
Researcher 9 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 6%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 25 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 44 37%
Physics and Astronomy 15 13%
Materials Science 9 8%
Chemistry 6 5%
Chemical Engineering 5 4%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 30 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 116. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 October 2019.
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#341,024
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#5,351
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#6,388
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Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#104
of 821 outputs
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