image: Jesse Silverberg et al. used origami-based engineering to design a lightweight, ultra-tough material with tunable properties. Their inspiration was a specific type of zigzag origami fold that has previously been used to efficiently pack solar panels for space missions. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 8 August, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jesse Silverberg at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and colleagues was titled, 'Using origami design principles to fold reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials.' view more
Credit: Jesse Silverberg, Arthur Evans, Lauren McLeod, Ryan Hayward, Thomas Hull, Christian Santangelo, Itai Cohen