Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Mahadevan and his team wanted to know if they could create these deployable art forms using non-periodic tiles, meaning tiles where the pattern doesn’t repeat? Turns out, they could. In a paper published in Physical Review Research Liu,), working with Choi and Mahadevan created quasi-crystal kirigami, inspired by the aperiodic tilings whose discovery led to a Nobel Prize a few decades ago. The kirigami quasi-crystal opens and closes without using any repeating patterns.
Mahadevan and his team wanted to know if they could create these deployable art forms using non-periodic tiles, meaning tiles where the pattern doesn’t repeat? Turns out, they could. In a paper published in Physical Review Research Liu,), working with Choi and Mahadevan created quasi-crystal kirigami, inspired by the aperiodic tilings whose discovery led to a Nobel Prize a few decades ago. The kirigami quasi-crystal opens and closes without using any repeating patterns.
