A polymer that changes shape when heated can lift objects 5000 times its own weight, with potential applications in robotics.
Shape-memory polymers flip between their normal state, where molecules are flexible and disordered, and their deformed state, where the molecules bind after being stretched. Once in the stretched, deformed state, the polymer can be unstretched – resuming its “normal” state – by applying heat or light.
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