New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be 'reprinted'

ScienceDaily
Oct 7, 2019, 3:34 pm
Engineers have developed silk materials that can wrinkle into highly detailed patterns -- including words, textures and images as intricate as a QR code or a fingerprint. The patterns are stable, but can be erased by flooding the surface of the silk with vapor, allowing the surface to be printed again. The…

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