#  Shape-shifting Structures Take The Form of A face, Antenna 

 





October 07, 2019

 

 

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Prof. L Mahadevan and researchers with the Harvard Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have created the most complex shape-shifting structures to date -- lattices composed of multiple materials that grow or shrink in response to changes in temperature. The team printed flat lattices that shape morph into a frequency-shifting antenna or the face of pioneering mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss in response to a change in temperature. The study is published in the [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences](https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/01/1908806116). [SEAS News](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/10/shape-shifting-structures-take-form-of-face-antenna)

##### ***Image:** To showcase the ability of the method to create a complex surface with multiscale curvature, the researchers printed the face of the 19th century mathematician who laid the foundations of differential geometry: Carl Friederich Gauss. Image courtesy of Lori Sanders/ Harvard SEAS*



 

 

 



 

 

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