Self-assembly in 4D printing uses materials responding to external stimuli. A regular 3D printer can be used to create 4D objects with proper ... that's not self-assembly!

Proposed by scientists at MIT, 4D printing can revolutionize the way objects are not only printed but also ... that the main concept here is that the 3D objects which are printed have a fourth ...

But Skylar Tibbits wants to up the ante: He's hoping 4D printing will be ... a way of describing the objects they were creating on 3D printers—objects that not only could be printed, but ...

A team of researchers at Fraunhofer CPM is significantly expanding the benefits by producing printed objects using so-called 4D printing. This technology adds the dimension of time, or 1D, to the ...

Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D ... 4D printing. At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows ...

Though the practice of 3D printing ... the obvious label of 4D printing, the group’s inventive take on additive manufacturing uses a gel-like composite to print flat objects which then have ...

3D printing has become a game changer for many industries. However, the reality is that much of the innovation has been incremental. Limitations still exist—but not ... 4D printing will create ...

Nowadays, 3D printing allows items to be created from a wide variety of materials — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even stranger ingredients such as chocolate and living cells. The machines ...