Frédérick Gosselin, Danick Lamoureux and David Mélançon with a prototype of their kirigami-patterned plastic parachute. (IMAGE)

Polytechnique Montréal

Frédérick Gosselin, Danick Lamoureux and David Mélançon with a prototype of their kirigami-patterned plastic parachute.

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Frédérick Gosselin, Danick Lamoureux and David Mélançon with a prototype of their kirigami-patterned plastic parachute.They published their results in the article Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration, which was published online in Nature on October 1st 2025.

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