(Nanowerk Spotlight) For centuries, origami, the ancient art of paper folding, was used to create decorative figures for crafts and artwork. In recent decades however, origami principles have inspired ...

(Top left circle) Eunji Jin, the first author of the study. From top row, left are Junghye Lee, Invited Professor Eunyoung Kang, Joohan Nam, and Hyeonsoo Cho. From bottom row, left are Professor ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.

Madonna Yoder’s Advent of Tessellations is back for a third year of folding fun. Also called tiling, tessellation is the process of covering a surface using geometric shapes with no overlapping. The ...

A research team has unveiled a remarkable breakthrough in the form of a two-dimensional (2D) Metal Organic Framework (MOF) that showcases unprecedented origami-like movement at the molecular level.