More information: Ahmad Rafsanjani et al. Buckling-Induced Kirigami, Physical Review Letters (2017). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.084301 Journal information: Physical Review Letters ...

The “active kirigami” robots, developed by a team at North Carolina State University, uses thin metal sheets to transform two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional structures by applying heat.

Journal Reference: Zirui Zhai, Lingling Wu, Hanqing Jiang. Mechanical metamaterials based on origami and kirigami. Applied Physics Reviews, 2021; 8 (4): 041319 DOI: 10.1063/5.0051088 ...

Similar to origami, the more well-known art of paper-folding, kirigami involves cutting in addition to folding. The team led by SungWoo Nam, associate professor of Mechanical Science and ...

Emerging kirigami/origami techniques, neither subtractive nor additive, provide an automated fashion for 3D micro-/nanofabrication through folding, bending and twisting of 2D materials/structures ...

Ultrastretchable Kirigami Bioprobes. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2017; 1701100 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201701100 ...

More information: Yue Zheng et al, Continuum Field Theory for the Deformations of Planar Kirigami, Physical Review Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.208003 ...