Origami-inspired systems are attractive for creating structures and devices with tunable
properties, multiple functionalities, high-ratio packaging capabilities, easy fabrication, and …

Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and
deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits …

Shape-morphing finds widespread utility, from the deployment of small stents and large
solar sails to actuation and propulsion in soft robotics. Origami structures provide a template …

Kresling origami has recently been widely used to design mechanical metamaterials, soft
robots and smart devices, benefiting from its bistability and compression-twist coupling …

Curved-sided hexagrams with multiple equilibrium states have great potential in
engineering applications such as foldable architectures, deployable aerospace structures …

Origami is emerging as a promising paradigm for deployable structures. The theoretical
analysis on the relationship between geometry of the crease patterns and the induced …

Increasing energy and space utilization efficiency is crucial for lightweight shape-
reconfigurable materials/structures that require tunable functions and multiple applications …

Folding a flat sheet under a specific crease pattern can form a three-dimensional origami
tube, which has been proven to exhibit unique mechanical properties and has wide …

Shape transformation offers the possibility of realizing devices whose 3D shape can be
altered to adapt to different environments. Many applications would profit from reversible …

Rigidly and flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami is the class of quadrilateral mesh crease
patterns with one fundamental property: the patterns can be folded from flat to fully-folded flat …