A butterfly-inspired design to create crumple-recoverable electronics

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-butterfly-crumple-recoverable-electronics.html

"mimics butterfly wings... integrates silver nanowires, a shape memory polymer with variable stiffness (SMP) and elastomer... when crumpled, SMP it contains allows folding...if heat applied via silver nanowires, becomes rigid... can repeat without permanent wrinkles or functional loss... users easily modulate device stiffness depending on their needs... display integrating light-emitting layer and touch panels was crumpled and rapidly folded into small space (like 1 ml capsule), foldable phones, wearables, medical, robotics"