The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials CPM (Fraunhofer CPM, Freiburg, Germany) has developed a 4D printing technology that can alter the shape of predefined, printed polymers when ...

4D printing is opening up possibilities never before seen from printing in outer space or even remote areas of our planet with its reactive abilities.

These shape-shifting materials are not just for architectural design. In recent years, 4D printing has become a transformative technology in the biomedical field, offering the potential to create ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have successfully added a fourth dimension to their printing technology, opening up exciting possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, ...

4D printing is nothing more than a digital manufacturing technology, 3D printing, which includes a new dimension: the temporal.

Have you ever imaged high-resolution 3D structures at the micro/nanoscale that react dynamically to their surroundings? The 4D printing technology is changing the game by using smart materials ...

Tibbits' latest technology for so-called " 4D printing," unveiled during a talk at the TED conference on 26 February in Long Beach, California, uses water to activate and power strands of material ...