Engineering by Cuts: How Kirigami Principle Enables Unique Mechanical Properties and Functionalities.

ABSTRACT: Kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting, has evolved into a design and fabrication framework to engineer multi-functional materials and structures at vastly different scales. By slit cutting with carefully designed geometries, desirable mechanical behaviors-such as accurate shape morphing, tunable auxetics, super-stretchability, buckling, and multistability-can be imparted to otherwise inflexible sheet materials. In addition, the kirigami sheet provides a versatile platform for embedding different electronic and responsive components, opening up avenues for building the next generations of metamaterials, sensors, and soft robotics. These promising potentials of kirigami-based engineering have inspired vigorous research activities over the past few years, generating many academic publica

SUBMITTER: Tao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9811446 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature