Mingxuan Bi

Harnessing disorder to decouple extension and shear in kirigami metamaterials

Haomin Yu, Hanxun Jin, Mingxuan Bi, Mohammad Jafari, Feng Helen Long, Michael J Greenberg, et al.

Kirigami turns stiff sheets into compliant, shape-morphing structures, but its reliance on periodic cut patterns comes at a cost: correlated panel rotations couple extension to shear, so stretching one axis drives a parasitic shear that cannot be suppressed, and also confine anis…Read more