A Swell New Approach to Polymer Shapes (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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A buckled gel sheet shrinks, flattens, and then regrows into a patterned three-dimensional shape driven by changes in temperature. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the March 9, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Kim at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography."

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Video courtesy of J. Kim, J.A. Hanna, C.D. Santangelo, R.C. Heyward

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