Shape-shifting fiber can produce morphing fabrics

A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a low-cost fiber, compatible with existing textile manufacturing techniques that contracts in response to an increase in temperature, then self-reverses when the temperature decreases, without any embedded sensors or other hard components. Sarah Nicita produced woven samples shown in the video. (Learn more: ) Watch more videos from MIT: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, technology, humanities and social sciences; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place. The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, and other aspects of life and culture on the MIT campus. Our goal is to open the doors of MIT and bring the Institute to the world through video.