The surge in advanced manufacturing techniques has led to a paradigm shift in the realm of
material design from developing completely new chemistry to tailoring geometry within …

In the realm of particle self-assembly, it is possible to reliably construct nearly arbitrary
structures if all the pieces are distinct,–, but systems with fewer flavours of building blocks …

Inhomogeneous in-plane deformation of soft materials or cutting and folding of inextensible
flat sheets enables shape-morphing from two dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) …

The tremendous increase in the number of components in typical electrical and
communication modules requires low-cost, flexible and multifunctional sensing, energy …

This study starts from the counterintuitive question of how we can render conventional stiff,
nonstretchable, and even brittle materials sufficiently conformable to fully wrap curved …

Frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) have been used to control and shape electromagnetic
waves. Previous design approaches use complex geometries that are challenging to …

Ori-kirigami structures offer a good avenue for designing mechanical metamaterials due to
their unique advantage of being independent of material properties and scale limitations …

Kirigami-inspired designs can enable self-folding three-dimensional materials from flat, two-
dimensional sheets. Hierarchical designs of connected levels increase the diversity of …

Despite the significant advances in creating assembled structures from polymers,
engineering the assembly of polymeric materials into framework structures remains an …

Self-assembly is usually considered a parallel process while self-folding and origami are
usually considered to be serial processes. We believe that these distinctions do not hold in …