A metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight.
Metamaterials have structures not found in nature, which can give them unusual characteristics such as high strength under load.
at the National University of Singapore and at the Swiss Federal Institute of聽Technology in Lausanne designed an interlocking kirigami pattern for聽paper that forms a thin shell of聽alternating squares. The shell can聽be bent into three-dimensional shapes using a computer model the聽pair created.
鈥淭he repeating chequerboard pattern allows us to distribute the聽load overall,鈥 says Paik.…
