# Buckling sheets open a door to understanding self-organization in soft matter

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how buckling sheets can serve as a model to understand self-organization phenomena in soft matter systems, highlighting the importance of geometric incompatibility in confinement.

## Contribution

It provides insights into the role of geometric incompatibility in the self-organization of soft matter through the study of buckling sheets, offering a new perspective on confinement effects.

## Key findings

- Buckling sheets reveal mechanisms of self-organization in soft matter.
- Geometric incompatibility influences the behavior of confined solids.
- The commentary connects theoretical models with experimental observations.

## Abstract

This is an invited commentary on "Geometrically incompatible confinement of solids", B. Davidovitch, Y. Sun and G. M. Grason (PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1815507116 , arxiv:1809.06919).