Mechanical metamaterials exhibit properties and functionalities that cannot be realized in
conventional materials. Originally, the field focused on achieving unusual (zero or negative) …

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Thin sheets have long been known to experience an increase in stiffness when they are
bent, buckled, or assembled into smaller interlocking structures. We introduce a unique …

Origami structures are commonly constructed by folding a two-dimensional sheet according
to a given crease pattern. The existence of abundant crease patterns means that many three …

Reconfigurable devices, whose shape can be drastically altered, are central to expandable
shelters, deployable space structures, reversible encapsulation systems and medical tools …

Advances in fabrication technologies are enabling the production of architected materials
with unprecedented properties. Most such materials are characterized by a fixed geometry …

Thin sheets assembled into three dimensional folding origami can have various applications
from reconfigurable architectural structures to metamaterials with tunable properties …

A foldable arm is one of the practical applications of folding. It can help mobile robots and
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overcome access issues by allowing them to reach into …

Nature demonstrates adaptive and extreme shape morphing via unique patterns of
movement. Many of them have been explained by monolithic shape-changing mechanisms …

Twists, Tilings, and Tessellation describes the underlying principles and mathematics of the
broad and exciting field of abstract and mathematical origami, most notably the field of …