Shape-memory polymers or shape-shifting materials are smart materials that have gained significant attention within materials science and biomedical engineering in recent years to build smart ...

(Phys.org) —A new design tool interprets hand gestures, enabling designers and artists to create and modify three-dimensional shapes using only their hands as a "natural user interface" instead of ...

The shape-memory polymer was used to 3D-print several structures, including a replica of the Eiffel tower. Microstereolithography, pioneered by the researchers, uses light from a projector to print ...

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Engineers have invented a '4-D printing' method for a smart gel that could lead to the development of 'living' structures in human organs and tissues, soft robots and targeted drug delivery. Rutgers ...

Shape memory objects are what some would term “4D printing”. The idea is that objects can take different forms once they are produced. There will be a trigger to make this change, and typically it’s ...

Yahoo, it's Saera! Day 188 of operation, and this is my 27th weekly report!This week was a week where I increased by two. One ...

When introducing the MakerBot’s PrintShop app for the iPad in early summer last year, Bre Pettis, then CEO of MakerBot, believed that they had “finally provided a piece of software that helps bring 3D ...