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Left: Approximately 5,000 microfibers are collected in the container.
Right: Coiling of a nonuniform microfiber with axially varied elastic modulus. As the fiber coils in the microfluidic device, it forms a spiral with a varying coiling radius that reflects the local elastic modulus. The higher the local elastic modulus, the larger the coiling radius of that segment. (Pictures are reproduced under the terms of the CC-BY license.) [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121, e2303679121, 2024]

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