Ancient Japanese kirigami techniques used to design flexible & stretchable electronics

Published April 18, 2018 This content is archived.

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An article on ElectroPages reports on research by Shenqiang Ren, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, that describes how kirigami, a variation of origami that involves cutting folded pieces of paper, has inspired efforts to build malleable electronic circuits.

“It can harvest energy using thermo-electrics or photovoltaics. The material will serve self-powered systems,” he said.

Read the story here.