Eli Sloutskin and Alexander Butenko watched this droplet transform as they lowered and then raised its temperature. As it cools, the spherical droplet of hexadecane briefly becomes an icosahedron ...

Origami is no longer just an art form — it has become a powerful tool in modern engineering. By studying how flat surfaces fold into complex structures, engineers design systems that are lightweight, ...

Princeton engineers are twisting, stretching and creasing structures to create a new type of origami, one that changes its shape and properties in response to changing circumstances. The new method ...

Larissa Novelino holds a paper model of a structure made from origami engineering. Credit: Alex Becker/Rice University. When Larissa Novelino started her career as an engineer, she never expected that ...

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.

Imagine *** world where you can fold up your home like origami and take it to go skip the traffic by soaring to the skies and 3D print bridges. These innovations are actually closer to reality than ...

Just as the name suggests, DNA origami is a fabrication technique wherein researchers fold DNA strands to create precisely shaped 2- and 3-dimensional nanostructures. These highly programmable ...

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