Crumpled paper is unusually weight-resistant. Its patterns are entirely unpredictable. Even with the same sheet, they’re impossible to replicate. See why. It’s mind-bending but true: the ...

Citation: "Three-dimensional structure of a sheet crumpled into a ball." By Anne Dominique Cambou and Narayanan Menon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 108 No. 33, August 23, 2011.

Six years ago, Huang discovered crumpled graphene balls — novel ultrafine particles that resemble crumpled paper balls. He made the particles by atomizing a dispersion of graphene-based sheets into ...