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Glasgow Team Creates Self-Sensing Auxetic Plastics via 3D Printing

(IN BRIEF) An international team led by the University of Glasgow has developed 3D-printed auxetic lattices from PEEK infused with carbon nanotubes that broaden under tension and autonomously sense strain through piezoresistivity. Detailed in Materials Horizons, the study couples finely … Read the full press release

Fraunhofer Researchers Develop Shape-Shifting Materials for Comfort and Resource Conservation

(PRESS RELEASE) MUNICH, 2-Jan-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, has announced that researchers at its Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials CPM are developing shape-shifting materials for use in products such as comfortable chairs and mattresses that … Read the full press release