Origami taking over a paper universe isn’t a 1:1 match, of course, but I couldn’t help but shake how easy it felt to get everyone on the same page in the game and how helpless it feels to do ...

About five years ago, Huang discovered crumpled graphene balls — a novel type of ultrafine particles that resemble crumpled paper balls. The particles are made by drying tiny water droplets with ...

The new material -- inspired by a trash can full of crumpled-up papers -- is made by crumpling the graphene sheets into balls. A paper describing the findings was published Oct. 13 in the journal ...

The research is described in a paper published in the journal, Joule. The team created the crumpled graphene balls by dispersing graphene-based sheets into tiny water droplets.

How often have you crumpled a sheet of paper in frustration and thrown it into the bin without further thought? You'll be amazed to hear that researchers - inspired by a trash can full of crumpled-up ...

Making the connection between balls of crumpled paper and the balls of folded tissue in our skulls was completely accidental. The universal scaling law that governs the folding of paper has been ...