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Flat microstructures can be designed to spontaneously fold into three-dimensional shapes. Computer simulations of water droplets on sheets of carbon atoms now extend this concept to the nanometre scale.

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Figure 1: Folding sheets.

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  1. Vincent H. Crespi is in the Departments of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. crespi@phys.psu.edu,

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Crespi, V. Soggy origami. Nature 462, 858–859 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462858a

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