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Perhaps the most interesting part is how much of these technologies borrow from the Japanese art of origami, and the related kirigami. Rather than trying to build three-dimensional structures ...

Researchers Daisuke Nakagawa and Itsuo Hanasaki from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) are looking into new options for making “kirigami hydrogels” that swell into complex 3D ...

Paper is a modest material with rich affordances for craft and design. In this work, we explore shaping carbon-coated paper with manual and digital fabrication processes to create functional and ...

Current kirigami patterns when deployed undergo uniform scaling, meaning, for example, that a square shape grows in size to become a larger square. What the researchers have done is to enable a ...

A specific pattern was cut into the sheet ... “The design of cuts on the metasheet are an example of kirigami, or paper-cutting. This is particularly important for the metasheets, because ...