It's a Bird, it's a Boat: New Polymer Shapeshifts Into Complex Origami Shapes (1 of 7) (IMAGE)

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It's a Bird, it's a Boat: New Polymer Shapeshifts Into Complex Origami Shapes (1 of 7)

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Shape memory polymer with thermally distinct elasticity and plasticity enables highly complex shape manipulations. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 8, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Q. Zhao at State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering in Hangzhou, China, and colleagues was titled, "Shape memory polymer network with thermally distinct elasticity and plasticity."

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[Credit: Dr. Qian Zhao and Dr. Tao Xie]

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