Foldable Electronics: Foldable Electrochromics Enabled by Nanopaper Transfer Method (Adv. Funct. Mater. 27/2015)

Foldable Joints for Foldable Robots

Print-and-fold manufacturing has the potential to democratize access to robots with robots that are easier to fabricate using materials that are easier to procure. Unfortunately, a lack of understanding about how motion can be achieved by folding hinders the scope of print-and-fold robots. In this paper, we show how the basic joints used in robots can be constructed using print-and-fold. Our pa...

Materials and Wireless Microfluidic Systems for Electronics Capable of Chemical Dissolution on Demand (Adv. Funct. Mater. 92015)

Foldable Composite Structures

This paper presents a study of the folding of a new self-powered, self-latching tube hinge for deployable structures. This hinge is made by cutting three parallel slots in a thinwalled carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) tube, thus leaving three tape springs connecting the two ends of the tube.

Rigid-Foldable Thick Origami

In this paper, a method is proposed for geometrically constructing thick panel structures that follow the kinetic behavior of rigid origami by using tapered or two-ply panels and hinges located at their edges. The proposed method can convert generalized pattern of rigid-foldable origami into thick panels structure with kinetic motion, which leads to novel designs of origami for various engineer...

Foldable containers and dependent types

Functional programs using foldable containers need reasoning tools as they are not equipped with laws. Moreover we want to allow any finite type to be foldable as well. Folding over all the values of a finite type is particularly interesting in a dependent type theory which features Π and Σ types. Our solution uses parametricity to show how foldable containers relate to monoid homomorphisms. Ou...