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  • New Publication: Programmable Multi-Stability of Curved-Crease Origami Structures with Travelling Folds
  • 2024-11-01

  • New Publication: Kirigami-inspired three-dimensional metamaterials with programmable isotropic and orthotropic thermal expansion
  • 2024-10-24

  • New Publication: Energy absorption of the kirigami-inspired pyramid foldcore sandwich structures under low-velocity impact
  • 2024-10-23

  • New Publication: Programming the mechanical properties of double-corrugated metamaterials by varying mountain-valley assignments
  • 2024-10-21

  • "Origami-based Reconfigurable Structures for Antenna" won the “Qixian” Excellent Paper Award at the 24th IFToMM China International Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science & Engineering
  • 2024-09-29

  • New Publication: An origami metamaterial with distinct mechanical properties in three orthotropic directions
  • 2024-09-19

  • Congratulations to Dr. Yuanqing Gu for the Lagrange Award——Multibody System Dynamics Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize
  • 2024-09-07

  • Curved-crease origami with programmable multi-stability themed poster won the "Best Poster Content Award" at the 2024 SES Annual Technical Meeting
  • 2024-09-06

  • Professor Chen Yan was awarded the title of "National Science Popularization Advanced Individual"
  • 2024-09-04

  • New Publication: The rigid and flat-foldable kirigami cubes
  • 2024-08-12

  • Dr. I-Ming Chen from Nanyang Technological University visited MSL
  • 2024-06-29

  • New Publication: Residual Stress-Driven Non-Euclidean Morphing in Origami Structures
  • 2024-06-17

  • New Publication: Reconfigurable Origami-inspired Multistable Metamorphous Structures
  • 2024-05-30

  • Weiqi Liu succesfully defended the doctoral dissertation, congratulations!
  • 2024-05-24

  • New Publication: Reconfigurable thick-panel origami tube
  • 2024-04-22

  • New Publication: Mountain-valley crease reconfiguration of 4-crease origami vertices and tessellations
  • 2024-03-29

  • The Structures of Motion Laboratory sends its best wishes for the New Year of Dragon!
  • 2024-02-09

  • Symposium on Advances in Origami : exchanging research frontier and promoting multidisciplinary collaboration
  • 2024-01-11

  • Congratulations to Yuanqing Gu for Passing the Doctoral Dissertation Defence
  • 2024-01-07

  • New Publication: Sarrus-inspired deployable polyhedral mechanisms and their overconstraint reduction
  • 2024-01-04

  • Professor Marcelo Diaz from University of Edinburgh and Professor Li Wen from Beihang University visited MSL
  • 2023-12-07

  • SAMIO 2023 International Symposium Concludes Successfully: Gathering Global Experts to Explore the Cutting Edge of Origami
  • 2023-10-19

  • New Publication: Linkage-based three-dimensional kinematic metamaterials with programmable constant Poisson’s ratio
  • 2023-09-22

  • New Publication: A Transformable Anisotropic 3D Penta-mode Metamaterial
  • 2023-09-12

  • New Publication: Deployable structure based on double-layer Miura-ori pattern
  • 2023-08-13

  • New Publication: Multi-Stability of the Extensible Origami Structures
  • 2023-08-10

  • New Publication: One-DOF rigid and flat-foldable origami polyhedrons with slits
  • 2023-07-12

  • Professor Jaehyung Ju from UM-SJTU visited MSL
  • 2023-06-30

  • “Seminar on Multi-stable Metamaterials” held at MSL
  • 2023-06-26

  • “Seminar on Acoustics and Fluctuating Metamaterials” held at MSL
  • 2023-06-20

  • New Publication: Design and Deformation Analysis of an Inflatable Metallic Cylinder Based on the Kresling Origami Pattern
  • 2023-05-31

  • Professor Shuguang Li from Tsinghua University visited MSL
  • 2023-05-22

  • Three-dimensional Mobile Assemblies based on Threefold-symmetric Bricard Linkages
  • 2023-05-03

  • Origami artist Haozheng Pei visited MSL
  • 2023-04-03

  • New Publication: Review on origami kinematics
  • 2023-03-28

  • New Publication: Thick-panel origami-based parabolic cylindrical antenna
  • 2023-03-16

  • New Publication: Engineering Zero Modes in Transformable Mechanical Metamaterials
  • 2023-03-08

  • New Publication: Deployable origami polyhedrons with one-DOF radial motion
  • 2023-02-21

  • New Publication: Kirigami-inspired thermal regulator
  • 2023-02-12

  • New Publication: A gain-enhanced reconfigurable radiation array with mechanically driven system and directive elements
  • 2022-07-25

  • New publication:A Humidity-powered Soft Robot with Fast Rolling Locomotion
  • 2022-05-31

  • New Publication: Folding arrays of uniform-thickness panels to compact bundles with a single degree of freedom
  • 2022-05-22

  • Congratulations to Shixi Zang for Passing the Doctoral Dissertation Defence
  • 2022-04-28

  • New Publication: Geometric design, deformation mode, and energy absorption of patterned thin-walled structures
  • 2022-03-29

  • New Publication: Kirigami-based Metastructures with Programmable Multistability
  • 2022-03-28

  • “ One-DOF origami boxes with rigid and flat foldability” won the best student paper silver award on the 7th IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science
  • 2022-03-26

  • New Publication: Design of Single Degree-of-Freedom Triangular Resch Patterns with Thick-panel Origami
  • 2021-12-04

  • New Publication: 3D Programmable Metamaterials Based on Reconfigurable Mechanism Modules
  • 2021-12-03

  • Deployable Structures: Structural Design and Static/Dynamic Analysis
  • 2021-11-06

  • New Publication: Regularly Hexagonal Origami Pattern Inspired Deployable Structure with Single Degree of Freedom
  • 2021-07-14

  • New Publication: Thick-panel Origami Cube
  • 2021-07-05

  • Director An Song from Amazing Paper Culture Communication Co., Ltd., visited MSL
  • 2021-05-20

  • Professor Zijia Li from Chinese Academy of Sciences visited MSL
  • 2021-04-07

  • Congratulations to Weilin Lv for Passing the Doctoral Dissertation Defence
  • 2021-03-20

  • New Publication: Rigid Folding of Generalized Waterbomb Origami Tubes
  • 2021-01-06

  • New Publication: Review on Kinematic Metamaterials
  • 2021-01-04

  • Congratulations to Dr. Xiao Zhang for the excellent paper award of his paper ‘Thick-panel origami and its hinge-removing method based on the kinematic equivalence of mechanisms’ on the 4th Conference on Deployable Structures
  • 2020-12-29

  • Professor Yunhong Liang from Jilin University visited MSL
  • 2020-12-24

  • New Publication: Theoretical characterization of a non-rigid-foldable square-twist origami for property programmability
  • 2020-12-22

  • New Publication: A double spherical 6R linkage with spatial crank-rocker characteristics inspired by kirigami
  • 2020-11-25

  • New Publication: Origami cubes with one-DOF rigid and flat foldability
  • 2020-11-20

  • MSL Held Meeting of the First Semester in 2020-2021 School Year
  • 2020-09-19

  • Origami-based Helical Structures with Switchable and Hierarchical Chirality
  • 2020-05-15

  • New Research Progress from Prof. Yan Chen’s Group in Tianjin University: Design of Programmable Origami Metamaterial with Mechanism-Structure Folding Mode Transition
  • 2020-04-30

  • Explore the Scientific Code behind Origami by Yan Chen at "Qiangguo Classroom"
  • 2020-01-11

  • MSL Held Meeting of the First Semester in 2019-2020 School Year
  • 2020-01-11

  • New Publication: Mobile Assembly of Two Bennett Linkages and Its Application to Transformation Between Cuboctahedron and Octahedron
  • 2020-01-02

  • Congratulations to Ting-Uei Lee for completing his PhD thesis defence
  • 2019-12-05

  • New Publication: A Plane Linkage and Its Tessellation for Deployable Structure
  • 2019-10-09

  • New Publication: Mobile assemblies of four-spherical-4R-integrated linkages and the associated four-crease-integrated rigid origami patterns
  • 2019-10-08

  • New Publication: Vertex-Splitting on a Diamond Origami Pattern
  • 2019-10-07

  • Professor Guimin Chen from Xi’an Jiaotong University Visited MSL
  • 2019-07-12

  • Dr. Yang Li from the California Institute of Technology Visited MSL
  • 2019-07-08

  • MSL Held Meeting of the Second Semester in 2018-2019 School Year
  • 2019-06-29

  • Professor Paulino from the Georgia Institute of Technology Visited MSL
  • 2019-05-24

  • Professor Xiangdong Ding from Xi’an Jiaotong University visited MSL
  • 2019-05-22

  • Welcome More Than 20 Primary School Students to Visit MSL
  • 2019-05-21

  • Dr. Xin Li from Nanjing University visited MSL
  • 2019-05-10

  • Professor Tongxi Yu from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology visited MSL
  • 2019-04-28

  • Dr. Martin Walker from University of Oxford visited MSL
  • 2019-04-24

  • Two Students from the Affiliated High School of Peking University Visited MSL
  • 2019-03-28

  • Xiao Zhang was offered a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford
  • 2019-03-20

  • Congratulations to Haoyuan Shi for admission to Ph.D. program at Cornell University
  • 2019-03-07

  • Visit from Professor Arvind Murugan , the University of Chicago
  • 2018-10-18

  • Welcome the Students from the University of Queensland to Visit Our Laboratory
  • 2018-07-15

  • Congratulations to Huijuan Feng for being awarded the PhD degree
  • 2018-07-13

  • Welcome More Than 140 Primary School Students to Visit MSL
  • 2018-04-20

  • Professor Joe Gattas from the University of Queensland visited MSL
  • 2018-03-21

  • Welcome Japanese Designer Haruki Nakamura
  • 2017-12-23

  • Congratulations to Fufu Yang for Passing the Doctoral Dissertation Defence
  • 2017-12-11

  • The Second International Workshop on Origami Engineering
  • 2017-09-23

  • Welcome undergraduate students from the University of Queensland
  • 2017-07-20

  • Miss Lucy Guo from Louisiana State University visited MSL for three weeks
  • 2017-06-19

  • MSL hosted TJU- SUT 2017 Workshop on Multi-disciplinary Mechanics
  • 2017-05-15

  • "Deployable CubeSat" won the first prize in TJU's first disruptive innovation contest for the future 30 years
  • 2017-05-15

  • Deployable robot won the best student paper award on the 4th IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science
  • 2016-12-20

  • Origami Tent Won the Second Place Award of GE Foundation TECH Award
  • 2016-12-19

  • Welcome Dr. Joseph Gattas and Mr. Ting-Uei Lee from the University of Queensland
  • 2016-12-14

  • Research on multi-states origami morphing structures was published on Scientific Reports
  • 2016-11-17

  • Deployable polyhedra won the best paper in the Second Conference on Deployable Structures
  • 2016-10-27

  • Research on thick-panel waterbomb has been published on Proceedings of the Royal Society A as the journal cover paper
  • 2016-06-11

  • Farewell to Mr. Ruikang Xie
  • 2016-03-31

  • Congratulations to Fufu Yang for the YDP award of the 14th IFToMM World Congress
  • 2015-09-25

  • Welcome Prof. Kyu-Jin Cho from Seoul National University in Korea to visit our lab and give a report
  • 2015-09-18

  • ‘Origami of thick panels’ published on SCIENCE by Yan Chen, Rui Peng and Zhong You
  • 2015-07-24

  • Welcome Dr. Gattas and students from the University of Queensland
  • 2015-06-28

  • Congratulations to Haiyang Liu for obtaining his Master degree
  • 2015-01-23

  • Welcome Dr Joseph Michael Gattas from the University of Queensland
  • 2014-09-08

  • Welcome Exchange Students from France
  • 2014-04-04

  • The Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Research on the Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics
  • 2013-12-27

  • Congratulations to Wang Zhi and Ni Jiaxin
  • 2013-10-14