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State Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for 2025-10-12 ( 1 items )  
N.C. State: 'Chinese Lantern' Structure Shifts Into More Than a Dozen Shapes for Various Applications (10)
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 10 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * 'Chinese Lantern' Structure Shifts Into More Than a Dozen Shapes for Various Applications Researchers have created a polymer "Chinese lantern" that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting behavior can be controlled remotely using a magnetic field, allowing the structure to be  more PR