Over the last decade, extensive efforts have been made on utilizing advanced materials and
structures to improve the properties and functionalities of flexible electronics. While the …

The emerging capability to 3D print a diverse palette of functional inks will enable the mass
democratization of patient-specific wearable devices and smart biomedical implants for …

Biological organisms such as the octopus can reconfigure their shape and properties to
perform diverse tasks. However, soft machines struggle to achieve complex configurations …

Optoelectronic devices with unconventional form factors, such as flexible and stretchable
light-emitting or photoresponsive devices, are core elements for the next-generation human …

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 …

Shape-morphing structures are at the core of future applications in aeronautics, minimally
invasive surgery, tissue engineering and smart materials. However, current engineering …

Optical metasurfaces, capable of manipulating the properties of light with a thickness at the
subwavelength scale, have been the subject of extensive investigation in recent decades …

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 …

Shape morphing that transforms morphologies in response to stimuli is crucial for future
multifunctional systems. While kirigami holds great promise in enhancing shape-morphing …

We investigate the mechanical response of thin sheets perforated with a square array of
mutually orthogonal cuts, which leaves a network of squares connected by small ligaments …