Printing self-folding structures (IMAGE)

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Printing self-folding structures

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The timing of each fold in the self-folding process can be controlled by strategically printing with different concentrations, as shown in (A). The other photographs show a typical paper plane and a paper ladder that leans, hangs, and retracts itself.

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Hiroki Shigemune in "Programming Stepwise Motility into a Sheet of Paper Using Inkjet Printing" published in Advanced Intelligent Systems of Wiley Online Library, under Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0

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