(Nanowerk News) Researchers propose a new, multistable, shape-reconfigurable design combined with a battery packing concept – which they term shape-reconfigurable batteries (SRBs) – that leads to 2D ...
The three innermost leaves contain three basic bistable units. The intermediate ring describes the basic preparation methods of multistable metamaterials: 3D printing (DIW, FDM, SLA, PolyJet, PBF, ...
Engineers at North Carolina State University have designed a polymer“Chinese lantern” capable of rapidly snapping into multiple stable 3D shapes. By adding a thin magnetic layer, the lantern can now ...