Light yet strong metamaterial inspired by art of paper cutting

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A metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight.

at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne designed an interlocking kirigami pattern for paper that forms a thin shell of alternating squares. The shell can be bent into three-dimensional shapes using a computer model the pair created.

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If you have a stack of ordinary printer paper how much weight will it support with no cutting, folding or bending?

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