University physicists Thomas Witten and Sidney Nagel have been investigating where energy is stored in thin sheets of Mylar when work is performed on them by crumpling. They find the ability of a ...

Co-author Oded Zilberberg from the University of Konstanz explains how this is connected to the simple act of crumpling a sheet of paper. A question of topology For quantum physicists, "topology" ...

Crumpling mechanics investigates the response of thin sheets when subjected to compressive forces, leading to the formation of intricate networks of folds and creases. This field bridges fundamental ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass--When someone crumples a sheet of paper, that usually means it's about to be thrown away. But researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene "paper" — a material formed ...

As protests against Xi Jinping’s Zero-COVID policy spread across China’s diverse cities and regions over the last week, one symbol remained constant: a blank sheet of paper. On a bridge in Beijing, ...

Discarded electronic devices, such as cell phones, are a fast-growing source of waste. One way to mitigate the problem could be to use components that are made with renewable resources and that are ...