“…The concepts of material uniformity, material symmetry, and inhomogeneity in elastic Cosserat surfaces, following the pioneering works of Noll [52] and Wang [72], are also firmly established [23][24][25][26]73,74], although these works have neither attempted to describe the inhomogeneity distribution in terms of the curvature and non-metricity (the notion of torsion does appear in some of these works), nor have they discussed the relevant issue of strain incompatibility. A theory of materially uniform, inhomogeneous (dislocated) thin elastic films, derived from a 3-dimensional uniform, inhomogeneous (dislocated) elastic body, has been recently proposed by Steigmann [68], and applied to determining the natural shapes of plastically deformed thin sheets [15]. Finally, we mention, only in passing, the extensive work on mechanics of topologically defective ('geometrically frustrated') liquid crystalline surfaces [7,8,10,58], which, in contrast to the local theories mentioned above, have taken a distinguished local-global (geometrical-topological) standpoint in describing the nature of defects.…”