In Plastics' Day in Surgery, Red Herring reports that an international team of U.S. and German researchers has developed a new kind of plastic that can shift between three different shapes when ...

The material, from Zhejiang University, China, is a shape memory polymer, built up from a large number of similar units bonded together, such as plastic, that revert to previous shapes.

The polymer plastic developed by researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, can do them all. You just need to apply a little heat and the material starts taking on a series of shapes, as if by ...