Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...

The Japanese art of “kirigami”, or paper cutting, has been used by scientists in the US to make electrically conductive composite sheets more elastic, increasing their strain from 4% to 370%, without ...

(Nanowerk News) A new approach to producing metamaterials draws on kirigami techniques to make three-dimensional, reconfigurable building blocks that can be used to create complex, dynamic structures.

image: MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and ...