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Title
3D-printed fabric can be soft or hard.
Abstract
The article focuses on 3D-printed fabric can be soft or hard. Topics include the new type of ‘chain mail' fabric that is flexible like cloth but can stiffen on demand has been developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the lightweight fabric is 3Dprinted from nylon plastic polymers and comprises hollow octahedrons a shape with eight equal triangular faces that interlock with each other.