Origami principles have been used in everywhere

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Using principles of origami,medical engineers have re-imagined the traditional stent graft,a tube used to open and support damaged blood vessels.Through tessellation, the rigid tubular structure folds into a compact sheet about half its expanded size.Origami principles have been used in airbags, solar arrays,self-folding robots, and even DNA nanostructures—who knows what possibilities will unfold next.

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