In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Biomimetic soft robotic crawlers have attracted extensive attention in various engineering
fields, owing to their adaptivity to different terrains. Earthworm-like crawlers realize …

Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and
deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits …

Kresling pattern origami is known for its bistable property, as confirmed by the truss model
used to analyze its dynamics. However, our theoretical research and folding experiments …

Efficient vibration isolation is an important problem in engineering. Nonlinear isolators with
quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) property have been studied for many years due to their beneficial …

Tunable metamaterials without the necessity to redesign parameters and remanufacture
have received increasing interest in recent years due to their rich dynamic characteristics …

Foldable and reconfigurable helical antennas change shape to adapt and reconfigure their
electromagnetic properties. In order to realize the frequency reconfigurability of helical …

The emerging mechanical functional metamaterials reported with promising
mechanoelectrical characteristics bring increasing attention to structurally functional …

Origami-inspired structures can manifest a range of interesting characteristics such as
reconfigurability and multi-stablity. Theoretically, the energy of rigid-foldable origami …