Deakin Researchers 3D Print Rotary Kirigami Cylinders

We’ve long had a passion at 3DPrint.com for Kirigami shapes, be it in the form of bandages, nano fabrication, or sensors. We also wrote a lot about metamaterials and, more recently, about 3D printing on cylinders to add to existing shapes or to create new geometries. So something that combines all of these things is bound to be of interest to us.

A new open-access paper published in Progress in Additive Manufacturing, “Conformal morphing meta-cylinders 3D printing for mechanical intelligence programming,” opens up a new class of useful shapes. The paper, by Ali Zolfagharian, Moslem Mohammadi, Eui-Hyun Kim and Keun Park of Deakin University and Seoul National University of Science and Technology, details how desktop 3D printed cylinders can be programmed with different shapes, moduli, and