Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Mechanical metamaterials based on origami and kirigami

Z Zhai, L Wu, H Jiang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Soft robotic origami crawler

Q Ze, S Wu, J Nishikawa, J Dai, Y Sun, S Leanza… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Biomimetic soft robotic crawlers have attracted extensive attention in various engineering
fields, owing to their adaptivity to different terrains. Earthworm-like crawlers realize …

Stretchable origami robotic arm with omnidirectional bending and twisting

S Wu, Q Ze, J Dai, N Udipi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Inspired by the embodied intelligence observed in octopus arms, we introduce magnetically
controlled origami robotic arms based on Kresling patterns for multimodal deformations …

Plug & play origami modules with all-purpose deformation modes

C Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Peng, Y Zhang, S An… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Three basic deformation modes of an object (bending, twisting, and contraction/extension)
along with their various combinations and delicate controls lead to diverse locomotion. As a …

Untethered control of functional origami microrobots with distributed actuation

LS Novelino, Q Ze, S Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Deployability, multifunctionality, and tunability are features that can be explored in the
design space of origami engineering solutions. These features arise from the shape …

Kirigami-based metastructures with programmable multistability

X Zhang, J Ma, M Li, Z You, X Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Multistability plays an important role in advanced engineering applications such as
metastructures, deployable structures, and reconfigurable robotics. However, most existing …

Architected origami materials: how folding creates sophisticated mechanical properties

S Li, H Fang, S Sadeghi, P Bhovad… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is not only an inspiring technique to
create sophisticated shapes, but also a surprisingly powerful method to induce nonlinear …

Origami with rotational symmetry: A review on their mechanics and design

L Lu, S Leanza, RR Zhao - Applied …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and
deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits …

Rigidly flat-foldable class of lockable origami-inspired metamaterials with topological stiff states

A Jamalimehr, M Mirzajanzadeh, A Akbarzadeh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Origami crease patterns have inspired the design of reconfigurable materials that can
transform their shape and properties through folding. Unfortunately, most designs cannot …