A new approach to producing metamaterials draws on kirigami techniques to make three-dimensional, reconfigurable building blocks that can be used to create complex, dynamic structures. Because the ...

(Nanowerk News) A new approach to producing metamaterials draws on kirigami techniques to make three-dimensional, reconfigurable building blocks that can be used to create complex, dynamic structures.

Engineers attempting to make solar energy more affordable for the average user have long faced a conundrum. Solar panels capture much more energy when they can shift to follow the movement of the sun ...

Hone your knife skills, and you can recreate semblances of 10 works of the Mod­ernist master with this challenging collection of model templates devised by British paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey. The ...

Graphene kirigami blends art and science ... with promising results By Chris Wood July 31, 2015 After building the kirigami designs out of paper, the researchers moved on to work with one atom thick ...

Researchers have developed new soft-material structures which can hold nearly 14,000 times their weight using the Japanese art form of kirigami -- a version of origami that allows materials to be cut ...

The authors of Kirigami House, the architectural partnership of John Sparano and Anne Mooney, are based in Salt Lake City and have built several inventive houses in the scenic wonderland of Utah.