The sheets of plastic you get in a Shrinky Dinks kit is polystyrene—the same stuff as recycled plastic #6, which is commonly used for those clear clamshell containers you see in cafeterias.

A young professor has used her favorite childhood toy, a laser printer, and a toaster oven to make microfluidic devices – tiny computer chips with plumbing that are usually fabricated in ...

Nano world of Shrinky Dinks: Low-cost nanopatterning method utilizes popular shrinkable plastic. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 08 ...

The magical world of Shrinky Dinks -- an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s -- has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists is ...

Scientists have discovered a way to fold origami — without physically touching it. By shining different colors of light on a sheet of Shrinky Dink plastic, researchers remotely bent it into ...

From our friend, Aaron Rowe, over at Wired Science: Hack: Young Professor Makes Lab-on-a-Chip with Shrinky Dink and Toaster Oven A young professor has used her favorite childhood toy, a laser ...

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