3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build a large variety of micro-/nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems with unique properties that do not manifest in their 2D planar ...

Engineers from the University of Bristol have developed a new shape-changing metamaterial using Kirigami, which is the ancient Japanese art of cutting and folding paper to obtain 3D shapes.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Like a yoga novice, electronic components don’t stretch easily. But that’s changing thanks to a variation of origami that involves cutting folded pieces of paper. In a study published ...

Image showing how the team applied their method to map the internal trajectories of the rotating units in kirigami specimens. Credit: Qiao et al. Image showing how the team applied their method to map ...

(Nanowerk News) Hydrogels have a network of water-attracting (hydrophilic) molecules, allowing their structure to swell substantially when exposed to water. Researchers Daisuke Nakagawa and Itsuo ...

A cut or tear in a material is typically a sign of weakness. Now, a Northwestern University, University of Illinois and Tsinghua University research team has created complex 3-D micro- and ...

Hone your knife skills, and you can recreate semblances of 10 works of the Mod­ernist master with this challenging collection of model templates devised by British paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey. The ...

Paper snowflakes, pop-up children’s books, and elaborate paper cards are of interest to more than just crafters. A team from Northwestern Engineering is using ideas taken from paper-folding practices ...

(Nanowerk News) 3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build a large variety of micro-/nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems with unique properties that do not manifest in their 2D ...

Scientists describe how kirigami has inspired its efforts to build malleable electronic circuits. Their innovation -- creating tiny sheets of strong yet bendable electronic materials made of select ...

A cut or tear in a material is typically a sign of weakness. Now researchers have created complex 3-D micro- and nanostructures out of silicon and other materials using an assembly method that uses ...