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Self-folding origami at any energy scale.

ABSTRACT: Programmable stiff sheets with a single low-energy folding motion have been sought in fields ranging from the ancient art of origami to modern meta-materials research. Despite such attention, only two extreme classes of crease patterns are usually studied; special Miura-Ori-based zero-energy patterns, in which crease folding requires no sheet bending, and random patterns with high-energy folding, in which the sheet bends as much as creases fold. We present a physical approach that allows systematic exploration of the entire space of crease patterns as a function of the folding energy. Consequently, we uncover statistical results in origami, finding the entropy of crease patterns of given folding energy. Notably, we identify three classes of Mountain-Valley choices that have widely varying 'typical' folding energies. Our work opens up a wealth of experimentally relevant self-folding origami designs not reliant on Miura-Ori, the Kawasaki condition or any special symmetry in space.

SUBMITTER: Pinson MB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5454341 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Self-folding origami at any energy scale.

Pinson Matthew B MB Stern Menachem M Carruthers Ferrero Alexandra A Witten Thomas A TA Chen Elizabeth E Murugan Arvind A

Nature communications 20170518

Programmable stiff sheets with a single low-energy folding motion have been sought in fields ranging from the ancient art of origami to modern meta-materials research. Despite such attention, only two extreme classes of crease patterns are usually studied; special Miura-Ori-based zero-energy patterns, in which crease folding requires no sheet bending, and random patterns with high-energy folding, in which the sheet bends as much as creases fold. We present a physical approach that allows systema ...[more]

PMID: 28516913

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