Scientists are now looking to 4D printing to create a new generation of printed smart materials capable of changing their shape. This article looks at how 4D printing works, its applications, and how ...

Over the last year we've been telling you lots about 3D printing. Now at the University of Wollongong in Australia, one research group has developed a 4D printing technique. Yes, you heard us ...

Skylar Tibbits released a new video showing 4D printing this week and spoke with the Post about a common misunderstanding around the technology.

This underscores a basic difference between living tissue, which grows over time, and dead or engineered materials, which don't. But what ... is applying that concept to build 3D-printed ...

As they told the Harvard Gazette, “the new method [of 3D printing responsive 4D materials] opens up new potential applications for 4D printing technology, including smart textiles, soft ...

4D printing enables 3D-printed materials to be programmed to self-assemble It can do this, for instance, by varying material's water-absorbing qualities This activates shape change when material ...

The biggest difference from 3D printing is 4D involves technologies that alter the properties and behaviors of objects such as external stimuli such as changes in temperature. They can also, to a ...