Nanopapers that swell into larger 3D structures pave the path towards designs of intelligent materials like robotic sensors ...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a kirigami-inspired mechanical computer that uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase ...

Programmable delicate and noninvasive kirigami gripper. (Hong et al., 2022) This structure consists out of essentially two flaps alongside a central region, on which an external (pulling ...

The researchers employed kirigami techniques to create cuts in a sheet of paper, resulting in a complex surface with numerous ...