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• 4D Printing of Shapeshifting Devices
  Organisms, such as flowers and plants, have tissue compositions and microstructures creating dynamic morphologies that can shapeshift in response to changes in their environments. Researchers at the Wyss Institute have mimicked a variety of such dynamic shape changes like those performed by tendrils, leaves, and flowers in response to changes in humidity or temperature with...

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  A 3-D model of a human heart ventricle
  July 23, 2018
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  A multifunctional, multiscale, reconfigurable surface
  June 25, 2018
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  A photosynthetic engine for artificial cells
  May 22, 2018

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  FLIPS: Ferrofluid-Containing Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces
  As a magnetic field is applied and moved, the ferrofluid component of FLIPS responds dynamically, allowing the surface to be endlessly reconfigured. Credit: Harvard SEAS

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  Gyrification: How the Brain Got its Folds
  A team led by Wyss Institute Core Faculty member L. Mahadevan used numerical simulations and a physical gel model to answer an age-old question that has vexed scientists for years: how did the outer layer of the mammalian brain (gray matter) become so convoluted atop the brain’s inner white matter? It turns out that at...