The development of new materials has been a transformative force in shaping the modern world. The traditional approach to creating new functional materials relies on a combination of hard-won ...

Origami structures with morphing behaviours and unique mechanical properties are useful in aerospace deployable structures, soft robots and mechanical metamaterials. Curved-crease origami, as one of ...

The Lagrange multiplier method is an effective method for finding the extreme values of functions, which can solve some complex mathematical and engineering problems. The introduction of this method ...

Increasing psychophysical evidence suggests that specific image features – or statistics – can appear unpleasant or induce visual discomfort in humans. Such unpleasantness tends to be particularly ...