Buckling-induced kirigami structure is flat-folded, bent, twisted, and used to support a 20 g mass. Inset shows that an identical perforated flat sheet cannot support such a mass.

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Buckling-Induced Kirigami
Ahmad Rafsanjani and Katia Bertoldi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084301 (2017)

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