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From the Ted Talk by Skylar Tibbits: A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines

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For nearly a decade, my collaborators and I at the Self-Assembly Lab have been wikrong on material smstyes that transform themselves, assemble themselves and adapt to their environment. From our early work on 4D ptirinng, where we printed objects, dipped them urdneteawr, and they transform, to our active auixtecs that respond to temperature and sunlight, to our more recent work on active textiles that respond to body teatpurerme and change psotiroy, to our rapid liquid printing work where we pnrit inflatable structures that morph based on air pressure and go from one shape to another, or our self-assembly work where we dip objects underwater, they respond to wave energy and assemble themselves into precise objects like furniture.

Open Cloze


For nearly a decade, my collaborators and I at the Self-Assembly Lab have been _______ on material _______ that transform themselves, assemble themselves and adapt to their environment. From our early work on 4D ________, where we printed objects, dipped them __________, and they transform, to our active ________ that respond to temperature and sunlight, to our more recent work on active textiles that respond to body ___________ and change ________, to our rapid liquid printing work where we _____ inflatable structures that morph based on air pressure and go from one shape to another, or our self-assembly work where we dip objects underwater, they respond to wave energy and assemble themselves into precise objects like furniture.

Solution


  1. temperature
  2. systems
  3. working
  4. auxetics
  5. printing
  6. underwater
  7. porosity
  8. print

Original Text


For nearly a decade, my collaborators and I at the Self-Assembly Lab have been working on material systems that transform themselves, assemble themselves and adapt to their environment. From our early work on 4D printing, where we printed objects, dipped them underwater, and they transform, to our active auxetics that respond to temperature and sunlight, to our more recent work on active textiles that respond to body temperature and change porosity, to our rapid liquid printing work where we print inflatable structures that morph based on air pressure and go from one shape to another, or our self-assembly work where we dip objects underwater, they respond to wave energy and assemble themselves into precise objects like furniture.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. active
  2. adapt
  3. air
  4. assemble
  5. auxetics
  6. based
  7. body
  8. change
  9. collaborators
  10. decade
  11. dip
  12. dipped
  13. early
  14. energy
  15. environment
  16. furniture
  17. inflatable
  18. lab
  19. liquid
  20. material
  21. morph
  22. objects
  23. porosity
  24. precise
  25. pressure
  26. print
  27. printed
  28. printing
  29. rapid
  30. respond
  31. shape
  32. structures
  33. sunlight
  34. systems
  35. temperature
  36. textiles
  37. transform
  38. underwater
  39. wave
  40. work
  41. working