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Harvard 3D Prints Filaments That Bend and Contract Like Biological Muscle

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Jun 4, 2026Added 1 month ago

Researchers at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a 3D printing method capable of producing hair-thin filaments that bend, twist, expand, or contract in response to temperature, behaving, in essence, like programmable artificial muscles. The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes from the lab…

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