Throughout evolution, plants have developed a number of strategies to induce movement
ensuring the survival and reproduction of their species. Carnivorous plants feed by trapping …

Folding paper along curves leads to spatial structures that have curved surfaces meeting at
spatial creases, defined as curve-fold origami. In this work, we provide an Eulerian …

Plants can change their morphology upon environmental variations such as temperature.
Inspired by plants' morphological adaptability, we present a computational inverse design …

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are shape-changing materials that exhibit large
deformations in response to applied stimuli. Local control of the orientation of LCEs spatially …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of active polymers of increasing interest,
because of their excellent actuation performances. To quantify the actuation performances …

An efficient way to introduce elastic energy that can bias an origami structure toward desired
shapes is to allow curved tiles between the creases. The bending of the tiles supplies the …

We combine theory and experiments to explore the kinematics and actuation of intrinsically
curved folds (ICFs) in otherwise developable shells. Unlike origami folds, ICFs are not …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) undergo a large uniaxial contraction upon thermal or
optical stimulation. LCE sheets are often fabricated with a spatially patterned direction of …

A creased thin disk is generally bistable since the crease could be pushed through to form a
stable cone-like inverted state with an elastic singularity corresponding to the vertex of the …

Shape-programmed sheets morph from one surface into another upon activation by stimuli
such as illumination, and have attracted much interest for their potential engineering …