4d printing
TPE TopCon: A Look at 16 Top 3D Printing Stories of 2016
Yesterday in Akron, Ohio was the 12th TPE TopCon event, a conference dedicated to thermoplastics hosted by the Akron Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and the TPE Special…
The Second 3D Printed Nervous System Petal Dress Debuts in Sydney Museum
You’d be amazed at how inspiring it can be to write about the 3D printing industry. As one innovation after another floods in, each usually relevant to a different industry,…
Researchers Create Microstereolithography for 4D Printing, Potential for Impacts in Medical, Solar & More
Technology can be confusing when it begins moving at such an accelerated rate, perfectly exemplified by the 3D industry, and encompassing all that goes with it, from 3D scanning to…
4D Printing & Origami Allow LLNL Researchers to Explore Complex Structures for Important Future Applications
Most of us find 3D printing to be incredibly fascinating. From the hardware, software, and materials that allow us to create objects at the desktop to more complex operations in larger…
MIT Self-Assembly Lab: Might Your 4D Smartphone One Day Build Itself?
One must wonder what Alexander Graham Bell would think today. While he was credited with the invention of the telephone, it’s hard to decide who to give credit to first…
The Reports of 3D Printing’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain Like most, I revel in the idea of an argument I can win, so when our editor-in-chief asked…
4D Printing and Computed Tomography Scans Used to Enhance Surgical Preparation
Earlier this month, thousands of surgeons from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons of England gathered into the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre for the…
Researchers Reverse Engineer the World of Flowers in Biomimetic 4D Printing
3D printing certainly isn’t going out of style—or going anywhere at all—except for perhaps heading onward and upward into another dimension when prescribed. As innovations have continued to evolve into…
New 4D Printed Composite Material is Capable of Complex Movements
By using additive manufacturing technology, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and Clemson University have developed a new hybrid material that is capable of moving independently…
3D and 4D Printing Will Allow Clothing and Consumer Products to Think For Us
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is widely considered the epicenter of the world’s technological innovation, and nothing is more on the forefront of the future than the MIT Media Lab. At…
MIT’s New 3D Printed Future Shoe Concept Will Assemble Itself
Growing up my mother always gave me a simple bit of advice that has not only stuck with me, but has never failed to be accurate. That advice? Never buy…
Researchers Use SLA Technology for Shape Memory Polymers for the First Time
While 3D printing is currently poised at the forefront of technology, 4D printing is nipping right at its heels. This next dimension in fabrication is really just 3D printing accentuated with the use…
3D Printing Goes 4D with Smart Memory Materials That Self-Assemble
The concept of 4D printing, a term coined by Skylar Tibbits in his 2013 Ted Talk, was developed to create materials that could be manufactured or assembled in one configuration…
‘Designers, Makers, and Users: 3D Printing the Future’ Exhibit Opens at Museum of Design Atlanta
The museum once known as the Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design changed its name in 2003 to the Museum of Design Atlanta, allowing itself the clever acronym of…
Where is the 4D Printing Market Headed? — Report Says $555.6M Annually by 2025
It’s called 4D printing, and it represents a radical shift in rapid prototyping where multi-material capable prints make use of embedded design to transform from one shape to another via…
4D Printing on The Nanoscale — Northwestern’s IIN Receives $8.5 Million Grant
As 3D printing has barely slid into the category of being considered a new normal, some scientists and researchers are already living in the world of 4D. You may have…
MIT Researchers 4D Print Soft Tunable Structures, Changing The Surface Texture Based on Pressure
One benefit of 3D printing which we see time and time again, independent of the process of printing being used, is the technology’s ability to help us fabricate new shapes,…
“It’s Love” 4D Printed Lamp from DC for Life
3D printing and art, as we’ve seen, certainly go hand in hand–and the same can be said for the even newer 4D technology. Objects printed using 4D techniques are able…
A 4D Printed Valve That Actuates According to Water Temperature
It may seem a touch misleading in name, but scientists at the University of Wollongong say they’re creating what they call 4D printing. The fourth dimension they refer to is…
Nervous System Envisions a Future of 4D Printed Structures Which Adapt to the Environment
You may have read the title of this story and thought to yourself, “4D Printing? I’m only just starting to understand what 3D printing is all about.” Well, if you…
Nervous System and Autodesk Debut Second 4D Kinematics Dress at CES 2015
As 3D printing becomes more and more prevalent, discussed, and questioned, one comment you hear often in jest by those just learning about the technology is, “So what’s next? 4D…
MIT, Autodesk & Stratasys are Working With ‘Secret’ Materials to Develop New 4D Printing Applications
3D printing has come a long way since its inception in 1984. Today, we can print amazing things — from toys on home desktop 3D printers to replacement parts for…
Nervous System and Shapeways Team to 4D Print an Incredible Dress in One Single Piece
There are some manufacturing realms which seem resistant, at least for now, to 3D printing solutions. The creation of clothing has yet to truly benefit from 3D printing – that…
MIT Develops a Method for ‘4D Printing’ Programmed Carbon Fiber & Wood
What if you could train or, more precisely, program a material like wood, carbon or rubber to virtually complete the manufacturing process of whatever object it is destined to become?…
