Try it yourself: With a cut and a few folds, this structure could serve as a shelter or a microfluidic channel. Because the researchers' rules keep the hexagons in proportion once the cuts and folds ...

Anyone who has ever hurt their knee or elbow can attest to the particular frustration of trying to get a bandage to stick around a working joint. Scientists at MIT have developed a new type of bandage ...

A team of researchers in France and Canada might have just improved upon humble parachutes by making lots of holes in them. Inspired by Kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting paper into ...

A research team has developed an ultrastretchable bioprobe using a 'Kirigami' designs. The Kirigami-based bioprobe enables one to follow the shape of spherical and large deformable biological samples ...

Kirigami is a technique that modifies the mechanical properties of a sheet of material by making precise folds and cuts to it. Children use it to make snowflakes out of paper, and engineers have used ...