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The Vietnamese youth are becoming increasingly absorbed with the modern-day art of kirigami (the creation of 3D paper artworks). The Vietnamese youth are becoming increasingly absorbed with the modern ...

The Japanese art of “kirigami”, or paper cutting, has been used by scientists in the US to make electrically conductive composite sheets more elastic, increasing their strain from 4% to 370%, without ...

Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the approach is based on the ancient arts of origami (making 3-D shapes by folding paper) and kirigami (which allows cutting as ...

Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...

Before every job, his practice do concept sketches and create an abstract model to express an idea in three dimensions. Here, the bare whiteness of the site inspired them to cut and fold a sheet of ...

Researchers at the École Polytechnique de Montréal have developed a new type of parachute based on the Japanese art of cutting and paper folding kirigami – a variation of origami. The parachute is ...