You Have to Grow Wefts to Fold Them

Lauren Niu; Geneviève Dion; Randall D. Kamien

doi:10.1073/pnas.2416536122

You Have to Grow Wefts to Fold Them

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-03-04 v1 Materials Science

Authors: Lauren Niu , Geneviève Dion , Randall D. Kamien

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Abstract

Knitting turns a one dimensional yarn into a highly ramified three-dimensional structure. As a method of additive manufacturing, it holds promise for a new class of lightweight, ultrastrong materials. Here we present a purely geometric model to predict the three-dimensional folding of knitted fabrics made only of the two traditional stitches, knit and purl.

Keywords

knitting geometric model three-dimensional folding additive manufacturing yarn

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.08409,
  title  = {You Have to Grow Wefts to Fold Them},
  author = {Lauren Niu and Geneviève Dion and Randall D. Kamien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.08409},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, the whole megillah

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