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 …

Materials and structures with negative Poisson's ratio exhibit a counter-intuitive behaviour.
Under uniaxial compression (tension), these materials and structures contract (expand) …

Shape morphing and the possibility of having control over mechanical properties via
designed deformations have attracted a lot of attention in the materials community and led to …

The ability to significantly change the mechanical and wave propagation properties of a
structure without rebuilding it is currently one of the main challenges in the field of …

Transforming flat sheets into three-dimensional structures has emerged as an exciting
manufacturing paradigm on a broad range of length scales. Among other advantages, this …

Kirigami tessellations, regular planar patterns formed by partially cutting flat, thin sheets,
allow compact shapes to morph into open structures with rich geometries and unusual …

Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

A majority of soft‐body creatures evolve armor or shells to protect themselves. Similar
protection demand is for flexible electronics working in complex environments. Existing …

Typical techniques for creating synthetic morphing structures suffer from a compromise
between quick shape change and geometric complexity. A novel approach is proposed for …

Mechanically flexible and conformable materials and integrated devices have found diverse
applications in personalized healthcare as diagnostics and therapeutics, tissue engineering …