The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice ...

A professor at MIT has completed an 18-year-long origami quest to develop a universal algorithm that could generate the paper-folding patterns required to produce any 3D structure with the ...

The material, from Zhejiang University, China, is a shape memory polymer, built up from a large number of similar units bonded together, such as plastic, that revert to previous shapes.

The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation of space ...

3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build a large variety of micro-/nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems with unique properties that do not manifest in their 2D planar ...

Researchers have developed a technique to fold glass sheets into microscopic 3D photonic structures directly on a chip—a ...

Kirigami, an ancient Japanese paper folding art, has been used by courts and engineers from University of Bristol to create shape shifting metamaterials.

Scientists have found that they can fold DNA into very particular shapes by way of a 3D printing method that could help deliver medication.

Chemical engineers have extended the ancient art of origami to produce intricate shapes made of glass or other hard materials. Their method, which can be combined with 3D printing, could have ...

The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice ...