The latest advance in solid-state nanopore sensors – devices that are made with standard tools of the semiconductor industry yet can offer single-molecule sensitivity for label-free protein screening ...

Researchers develop hybrid kiri-origami structures that enable the fabrication of high-performance stretchable electronics using non-stretchable materials. (Nanowerk News) Stretchable electronics are ...

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.

Curved origami structures provide tunable flexibility to robots. New research that employs curved origami structures has dramatic implications in the development of robotics going forward, providing ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - From shipping and construction to outer space, origami could put a folded twist on structural engineering. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the ...

Researchers have developed multifunctional origami structures, which they then fabricated into 4-D printed objects. The design principle mimics the structure of an earwig's wing. Every child knows ...

When Larissa Novelino began her engineering career, she never imagined she’d spend her days folding paper. “I was never the crafty, artistic type,” Novelino said. “My mom still can’t believe I ended ...

An origami-inspired tent had to be flexible enough to inflate, but sturdy enough to withstand the elements. (Image courtesy of Benjamin Gorissen/David Melancon/Harvard SEAS) Applied mathematics ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...