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This extensive paper is concerned with mechanical and mathematical aspects of the buckling-driven delamination of compressed thin-solid films whereby a portion of film buckles away brom the substrate and forms a blister. After mentioning some technological applications of the thin-solid film theory in the introductory section I, the authors present a well-documented section II ``Experimental background'' with subsections: A. Sources of residual stresses in thin films; B. Observation of delamination in composed films; C. Experimental observations of blister morphologies and folding patterns. The thin-film blisters subjected to biaxial compression are analysed by energy methods in section III ``Folding patterns as energy minimizers'', with subsections: A. Energy of delaminated films; B. Thin-film limit; C. A two-variant construction; D. General domains (1. Membrane solutions; 2. Local analysis of sharp edges; 3. Envelope construction; 4. Bending and smoothing); E. Comparison with experiments, and F. Discussion. The starting point in the authors' analysis is the hypothesis that, in the limit of thin film, the bending energy of film constitutes a singular perturbation superimposed on the membrane energy. The analysis is framed within the classical von Kármán theory of moderate deflection of plates. The problem of a straight-sided semi-infinite film exhibiting some of the essential features of membrane minimizers is studied in subsection III. C, and a generalization of the obtained results to the general domains is given in subsection III. D. We note that in this subsections the authors study an analytic characterization of film deflections in the interior domain and at the boundary of a blister of known form. The problem of determining the possible shapes of blisters is studied in Section IV ``Film morphologies'' which has subsections: A. Energetics of blister growth; B. Boundary-layer analysis; C. Equilibrium morphologies: The telephone cord; D. Comparisons with experiments, and E. Growth of telephone-cord blisters. The main assumption is that a blister adopts a shape which provides a balance between the driving force for delamination and the static or kinetic interfacial fracture resistance. It is shown that the driving force for delamination, at the boundary furnished by Eshelby's energy-momentum tensor, is completely determined by normal bending strains at the boundary. Supposing a perturbative character for the bending and using a boundary-layer theory, the authors show that the requisite bending strain can be fully characterized by the local curvature of the boundary and by its derivatives with respect to the arc-length. The last section V ``Conclusion'' summarizes the main results obtained in the paper. In the reviewer's opinion, this paper represents an important contribution to the theory of solid-thin films. The reviewer agrees with the authors' view that ``... the present theory partakes of the tools of modern nonlinear mechanics and analysis, which have recently proven of such great value for explaining the intricate microstructures which are observed to develop in many material systems''. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0862.00009].