Origami with molecules?

[ad_1] By Udit Chaudhuri Photograph courtesy:  Jongmin Shim, Katia Bertoldi and Pedro Reis A building with collapsible walls and roofs, an arm with smooth, seamless joints like a green branch instead of mechanical pairs, a micro-sized drug delivery system digging into a specific gland or a ‘paste’ that forms into a defined shape may well become a reality quite soon! Progress in the materials sciences sees attempts to ‘design’ molecular patterns and thus micro-sized forms. However, there are limitations that hold up scaling this up to visible objects of our daily use. I am referring to the Buckliball-inspired experiment at […]