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Self-folding Christmas tree
A Christmas tree produced by MorphingCircuit, an integrated design, simulation and fabrication workflow created by the Morphing Matter Lab at Carnegie Mellon University that combines electronic functions with forms through 4D printing.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant IIS 2017008.]
Learn more in the Morphing Matter Lab's Morphing Circuits webpage. (Date of image: July 2020; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 15, 2022)
Credit: Lining Yao, Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
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