Programmable Multistable Perforated Shellular (Adv. Mater. 42/2021)

Programmable Materials In article number 2102423, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh and co-workers report the development of the first multistable perforated P shellular by introducing multilayer staggered perforations that form hinges and facilitate local instability in three orthogonal directions. This work provides a systematic approach for the realization of multistable perforated P shellulars, in which all snap-through, snap-back, self-contact, and number of stable configurations can be programmed.