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Granular metamaterials made of staple-shaped entangled particles interlock into load-bearing structures without adhesive, ...

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In typical rollable structures, the cross-section is flat in the storage phase so that it can wrap smoothly around a central hub, and transforms into a corrugated cross-section in the deployed phase ...