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Wafer-thin Nanopaper Changes from Firm to Soft at the Touch of a Button

2021-03-30

Wafer-thin Nanopaper Changes from Firm to Soft at the Touch of a Button

Materials science likes to take nature and the special properties of living beings that could potentially be transferred to materials as a model. A research team led by chemist Professor Andreas Walther of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has succeeded in endowing materials with a bioinspired property: Wafer-thin stiff nanopaper instantly becomes soft and elastic at the push of a...