CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have identified a mechanism that triggers shape-memory phenomena in organic crystals used in plastic electronics. Shape-shifting structural materials are made with ...

Its oddly colored light is probably the glow of organic molecules. The Red Rectangle is thus a historic entity whose unique shape and singular glow opened doors to previously unknown phenomena.

Rather than liquid metal, it is a hydrogel, a mesh of organic molecules with many small empty spaces ... The ability to form a gel into a desired shape further expands the possibilities. For example, ...