A New Hybrid Material that Could Reconfigure Itself Multiple Times into Different Shapes when Expose (IMAGE)

University of Pittsburgh

A New Hybrid Material that Could Reconfigure Itself Multiple Times into Different Shapes when Expose

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In order to create a material that is both strong and malleable and displays different behavior when exposed to more than one stimulus, researchers embedded light-responsive fibers, which are coated with spirobenzopyran (SP) chromophores, into a temperature-sensitive gel. This new material displays distinctly different behavior in the presence of light and heat.

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