A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has achieved a ground-breaking advancement in materials research by successfully developing the world’s first-ever 4D printing f... Read more
From moon landings to mobile phones, many of the farfetched visions of science fiction have transformed into reality. In the latest example of this trend, scientists report that they have de... Read more
Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design. Now, as a systems engineer... Read more
A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and two other institutions has developed a new 3-D printing method to create objects that can permanently transform into a range of... Read more
A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated the 3D printing of shape-shifting structures that can fold or unfold to reshape themselves when exposed to heat... Read more
Materials science and mathematics combine to enable the printing of shapeshifting architectures that mimic the natural movements of plants A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biol... Read more
Combining photo-responsive fibers with thermo-responsive gels, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and Clemson University have modeled a new hyb... Read more
Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing technology that allowed creation... Read more
Four-dimensional printing is unfolding as technology that takes 3D printing to an entirely new level The fourth dimension is time, shape shifting in fact, and the ARC Centre of Excellence fo... Read more
The 4D printing concept allows materials to “self-assemble” into 3D structures Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have successfully added a fourth dimension to their printing... Read more
Pitt-led research team receives U.S. Army Research Office grant to develop 4D printing of adaptive materials Imagine an automobile coating that changes its structure to adapt to a humid envi... Read more
The big idea is to create objects that can change after they are printed, making them self-adapting. There are 3D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3... Read more
