RESEARCH / 2026

A flat beginning. A curved destination.

How patterned thin sheets meet a sphere, carry a pattern, and remain attached to a curved surface.

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Conceptual geometry, not a numerical simulation. Click, tap, or press Enter to apply a local load. Drag to move it; on touchscreens drag horizontally. Arrow keys move the load. Escape resets it. Vertical touch gestures scroll the page.

AN EXPLORABLE CONCEPTUAL FORMORIGINAL GEOMETRY · NOT SIMULATION DATA

01 / THE QUESTION

Flat and curved do not naturally agree.

A flat sheet cannot cover a doubly curved surface without changing its geometry. The challenge is to understand both the attachment and the pattern transported by the deforming sheet.

02 / THE APPROACH

Let the petals find a path.

A finite-deformation description connects petal-to-sphere attachment with pattern transport. The shape of the sheet becomes part of the mechanical design.

03 / THE INTERFACE

The final shape is only the beginning.

After wrapping, interfacial stability still matters. The study examines the tendency for edge delamination in the attached structure. Personal contribution: investigation and writing — review & editing.

04 / PUBLICATION

The full story,
on the record.

Mechanics of attachment and interfacial stability in wrap-like transfer printing ↗

Wei Jian, Xingyu Zhou, Yingchao Zhang, Xue Feng.

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 216 (2026), 106744.

First published online 2026-07-01.

Co-author · Investigation; writing — review & editing.

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Wei Jian, Xingyu Zhou, Yingchao Zhang, Xue Feng. (2026). Mechanics of attachment and interfacial stability in wrap-like transfer printing. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 216, 106744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2026.106744

@article{jian-2026-wrap,
  title = {Mechanics of attachment and interfacial stability in wrap-like transfer printing},
  author = {Wei Jian and Xingyu Zhou and Yingchao Zhang and Xue Feng},
  journal = {Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {216},
  pages = {106744},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jmps.2026.106744},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2026.106744},
  note = {Available online 2026-07-01}
}

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Flat and curved do not naturally agree.

Let the petals find a path.

The final shape is only the beginning.

The full story,on the record.

The full story,
on the record.