When Larissa Novelino started her career as an engineer, she never expected that paper folding would become the center of her ...

Chemical engineers have extended the ancient art of origami to produce intricate shapes made of glass or other hard materials. Their method, which can be combined with 3D printing, could have ...

Now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, Novelino has built her research on a ...

A method for shaping glass based on origami can create delicate and intricate objects that are difficult to make otherwise. Household glass objects like jars or bottles are typically made by a ...

Just as the name suggests, DNA origami is a fabrication technique wherein researchers fold DNA strands to create precisely shaped 2- and 3-dimensional nanostructures. These highly programmable ...