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Soft matter and liquids

Soft matter and liquids

‘Flat-pack pasta’ morphs into 3D shapes when cooked

05 May 2021 Hamish Johnston
Flat-pack pasta
Oodles of noodles: Real-life grooved pasta (white) and model simulations (orange) shown before and after cooking. (Courtesy: Morphing Matter Lab/Carnegie Mellon University)
Flat sheets of fresh and dried pasta that morph into tubes or spirals when cooked have been created

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