Self-folding origami at any energy scale

Origami is widely practiced in the design of foldable structures for smart applications and usually consists of stiff sheets that only deform along prescribed creases. Pinsonet al. take a statistical physics approach to design and characterize arbitrary patterns as a function of folding energy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Matthew B. Pinson, Menachem Stern, Alexandra Carruthers Ferrero, Thomas A. Witten, Elizabeth Chen, Arvind Murugan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15477