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As seen throughout the natural world, nanoscale fibers exhibit a unique combination of mechanical and surface properties that enable them to wind and bend around each other into an immense diversity of complex forms. In this review, we discuss how this versatility can be harnessed to transform a simple array of anchored nanofibers into a variety of complex, hierarchically organized dynamic functional...