A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed. Made using a material called a liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE), a soft ...

The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice to ...

What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the University of Vienna and the University of Edinburgh has shown that even small ...

A group of scientists from Ohio State University developed a new shape-changing polymer that has the potential to revolutionize the construction of soft materials. The study was recently published in ...

MedShape (Atlanta, GA) has been granted a U.S. patent for a shape memory polymer-based technology used in orthopedic applications. Shape memory polymers can "remember" more than one shape and ...

Fluorescent materials have attracted widespread attention for information encryption owing to their stimuli-responsive color-shifting. However, the 2D encoding of fluorescent images poses a risk of ...