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‘Chinese lantern’ structure shifts into more than a dozen shapes for various applications

Researchers have created a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting ...

‘Chinese lantern’ material snaps into 13 shapes using stored elastic energy

A new kind of shape-shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen three-dimensional forms—no motors or ...