The Buckliball (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Buckliball (1 of 2)

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The buckliball is the first morphable structure to incorporate buckling as a desirable engineering design element.

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Photos / Jongmin Shim, Katia Bertoldi and Pedro Reis

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