A regular 3D printer can be used to create 4D objects with proper design phase. Printing in "4D" might sound like something cooked up for a sci-fi novel, but it's actually a real object printing ...

Zhen Ding at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and his colleagues have now developed a way to rapidly print rigid 4D objects with a commercial 3D printer and a heat source.

With a 3D printer, an operator plugs in a virtual blueprint for an object, which the printer uses to construct the final product layer by layer. To make something "4D," though, Tibbits feeds the ...

Proposed by scientists at MIT, 4D printing can revolutionize the way objects are not only printed but also created and used. The idea, unveiled first by MIT scientist and TED fellow Skyler Tibbits ...

Wherein most 3D printers are designed to create objects that have to remain rigid in structure and shape, 4D printing, as it is called, allows the 3D printed objects to change their shape and ...

Xiao and Pandeya have researched 4D printing technology that involves embedding smart thermo-responsive materials and processes onto flat 3D-printed objects. This allows them to shapeshift by putting ...

This is now possible thanks to a 4D printing technology developed in the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials CPM (Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, "Highly Shrinkable ...