It wasn’t so long ago that 3D printing was the new kid on the block. Now the term 4D printing is making headlines, stretching our ability to conceptualize once again. To understand 4D printing, it ...

SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, Washington, and IHS Chemical, Englewood, Colorado, has announced that Skylar Tibbits, a research scientist in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

It's like something out of Westworld, but it's quite real. The wild future of 4D design A manufacturing technique from MIT's Self-Assembly Lab that is poised to disrupt everything from furniture to ...

Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized the way the written word was replicated, bringing two-dimensional printing into the world and so vastly increasing accessibility of information. From that ...

There are 3D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3D mills that tear things down, grinding away one small chunk at a time. But Skylar Tibbits offer a very ...

While we are still trying to understand the possibilities and limits of three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing, a new term has emerged for our vocabulary. 4D printing is nothing more ...

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) offer significant promise as soft actuator materials, but their potential has not yet been fully explored for 4D printing applications. Most existing studies rely on ...