"The design of cuts on the metasheet are an example of kirigami, or paper-cutting," says Yinding Chi, first author of the paper and a former Ph.D. student at NC State. "This is particularly ...

A kirigami design where the cuts’ length-to-width ratio was six was way more responsive to magnets, and that, in turn, ...

Using the design principles of the kirigami, the ancient art of folding and cutting paper, researchers at the North Carolina State University in the US have developed technology that can move ...

This is distinct from kirigami (切り紙), as is made clear by the name: 切り (kiri) meaning ‘to cut’ and 紙 (kami) meaning ‘paper’. Instead of the folding of the paper creating the ...