Heat Shrinking Materials (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Heat Shrinking Materials

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While most solid materials expand with heat, this 3-D-printed structure, designed by MIT engineers, is designed to shrink, based on the stretching and pulling of its internal beams and trusses.

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Image: Qiming Wang

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