A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...

(Nanowerk News) New options for making finely structured soft, flexible and expandable materials called hydrogels have been developed by researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ...

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 ...

A new image sensor designed using the principles of kirigami patterns could lead to better images from cameras and endoscopes. Developed at the University of Houston and described in Nature ...

Wireless, wearable, and flexible: the electrocardiogram monitor and a mobile phone running the app that receives heartbeat data. (Courtesy: Kuniharu Takei) The Japanese art form of kirigami has ...

MONTREAL — Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have created a concept for a parachute inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, one that engineers hope could be used in everything from humanitarian ...

"This is the first case that we know of in which 2D kirigami patterns autonomously reshape themselves into distinct 3D structures without mechanical input," says Jie Yin, an assistant professor of ...

New options for making finely structured soft, flexible and expandable materials called hydrogels have been developed by researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). Their ...