Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Origami-based tunable truss structures for non-volatile mechanical memory operation

  • Hiromi Yasuda,
  • Tomohiro Tachi,
  • Mia Lee,
  • Jinkyu Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00670-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Origami is a popular method to design building blocks for mechanical metamaterials. Here, the authors assemble a volumetric origami-based structure, predict its axial and rotational movements during folding, and demonstrate the operation of mechanical one- and two-bit memory storage.