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Considering responsive materials as transient collective assemblies rather than individual shape-changing objects allows for emergent functionalities that cannot be derived from the properties of single objects but are driven by interactions between them.

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Fig. 1: Collective shape-changing assemblies with emergent functionalities.

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Priimagi, A. Stronger together. Nat. Mater. 23, 167–169 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01793-w

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