3 papers
physics.app-ph2022
Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient, butterfly swimming-like soft flapping-wing robot
Yinding Chi, Yaoye Hong, Yao Zhao +2
Natural selection has tuned many flying and swimming animals across different species to share the same narrow design space for optimal high-efficient and energy-saving locomotion,…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021
Architected kirigami metamorphosis
Yanbin Li, Jie Yin
Kirigami, art of paper cutting, enables two-dimensional sheets transforming into unique shapes which are also hard to reshape once with prescribed cutting patterns. Rare kirigami d…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021
Three-dimensional transformable modular kirigami based programmable architected materials
Yanbin Li, Qiuting Zhang, Yaoye Hong +1
Metamaterials achieve unprecedented properties from designed architected structures. However, they are often constructed from a single repeating building block that exhibits monoto…