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 …

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

The advent of acoustic metasurfaces (AMs), which are the two-dimensional equivalents of
metamaterials, has opened up new possibilities in wave manipulation using acoustically thin …

We investigate the deformation in a uniform water flow of thin sheets perforated with parallel
cuts. Through combined experiments and theory, we show that deployment is governed by …

Kirigami patterned materials have found several applications in recent years due to their
ability to assume complicated shapes and exhibit emergent physical properties when …

Microfabrication of polyimide (PI) with femtosecond laser of wavelength 1030 nm is studied
in two process conditions. Firstly, the low power-low scan speed regime is investigated for …

In this Backstory, Max Shtein and Matt Shlian recount the story of how they came to a
serendipitous collaboration. Max, a professor of materials science and engineering, and …