Complex structures can form in any slender elastic filaments upon twisting (IMAGE)

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics

Complex structures can form in any slender elastic filaments upon twisting

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You can observe the formation of twisted structures (at the human scale) by grabbing an end of a string (or for example headphones) and twisting it – after a few rotations, a characteristic perpendicular shape is formed.

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Photo: Radost Waszkiewicz, source: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.

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