Kirigami, a Japanese form of paper cutting, has seen Japanese women cut paper to decorate in festivals as well as to make paper art works since time immemorial. In the early 1980s, Professor Masahiro ...

Kirigami patches can create 20 to 35 percent higher grip than sneakers or boots. In a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers describe how they ...

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.

Graphene's looking more and more like an all-around wonder material that can be used to make armor tougher than kevlar, thin light bulbs, long-lasting batteries and even high-tech tattoos. Now, a ...

The “active kirigami” robots, developed by a team at North Carolina State University, uses thin metal sheets to transform two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional structures by applying heat.

To achieve these things, the researchers took inspiration from kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting. In kirigami, closely related to origami, two-dimensional paper is folded and cut to form ...

The Japanese art form of kirigami has inspired a new heart sensor that can monitor electrical signals from the surface of the skin while being worn for long periods of time. Borrowing from the ...

Borrowing a page from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and then reuse (ACS Appl.

Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) structures or objects. Over the past decades, this creative practice ...