Small, “kirigami” slits in polymer film enable the material to stick to the skin, even after 100 knee bends, compared to the same film without slits, which debonds after just one bending cycle. Credit ...

Nanoscale kirigami inspired silicon metamaterial uses a cut and fold mesh to tune structural colour, smoothly shifting ...

Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into intricate patterns—that can automatically adapt in mid-air. The design has the potential to make air ...

Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the approach is based on the ancient arts of origami (making 3-D shapes by folding paper) and kirigami (which allows cutting as ...

Wireless, wearable, and flexible: the electrocardiogram monitor and a mobile phone running the app that receives heartbeat data. (Courtesy: Kuniharu Takei) The Japanese art form of kirigami has ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam have developed a material ...

Grippy sneakers can mean the difference between a swift pivot shot and a sloppy turnover. Thanks to a team of material scientists from the U.S., Canada and Switzerland, nailing that shot could be ...

The Japanese art of “kirigami”, or paper cutting, has been used by scientists in the US to make electrically conductive composite sheets more elastic, increasing their strain from 4% to 370%, without ...

One of the challenges facing designers of traditional flat solar panels is the fact that the sun doesn't conveniently stay in one place. This means that in order for a panel to receive as much ...