Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Snap‐through bistability is often observed in nature (eg, fast snap** to closure of Venus
flytrap) and the life (eg, bottle caps and hair clippers). Recently, harnessing bistability and …

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 …

In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

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 …

Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their
ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional …

The ability to grab, hold, and manipulate objects is a vital and fundamental operation in
biological and engineering systems. Here, we present a soft gripper using a simple material …

Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, has recently enabled the design of stretchable
mechanical metamaterials that can be easily realized by embedding arrays of periodic cuts …

With the rapid development of micro/nanofabrication technologies, the concept of
transformable kirigami has been applied for device fabrication in the microscopic world …

Intelligent materials are one of the important directions in the development of modern high-
tech new materials, realizing structural functionalization and functional diversification. As a …