Multimedia Release 8-Jan-2016

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

Reports and Proceedings

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

It's a Bird, it's a Boat: New Polymer Shapeshifts Into Complex Origami Shapes (1 of 7) — image: 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." view more

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

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