(Nanowerk Spotlight) Smart materials that can change their properties like color or shape in response to external stimuli are highly desirable for advanced applications like soft robotics, adaptable ...

Most images captured by a camera lens are flat and two dimensional. Increasingly, 3D imaging technologies are providing the crucial context of depth for scientific and medical applications. 4D imaging ...

Marc del Pozo Puig of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has created a new 'smart ink' for use in 4D printing. 4D printing uses 3D printing to create objects capable of rearranging ...

A team of international researchers has shown that four-dimensional structures can influence the mechanical and topological properties of quasiperiodic crystals. This finding confirms that ...

Beetling along: Under the influence of moisture, the colour of the 3D-printed beetle changes from green to red, and back again to red. (Courtesy: Bart van Overbeeke) Researchers in the Netherlands ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According ...

A breakthrough imaging method reveals the complex structural details of zeolite crystals and could help scientists optimize these valuable materials. Schematic illustration of 4D-STEM and a ...

Scientists say that a perpetual motion machine is physically impossible, but a research team at the University of California Berkeley has just outlined an idea that comes pretty damn close. By ...

Scientists are using the latest in 4D technology to predict the behavior of lava flows and its implications for volcanic eruptions. The results explain why some lava flows can cover kilometers in just ...

Scientists are using the latest in 4D technology to predict the behaviour of lava flows and its implications for volcanic eruptions. The results explain why some lava flows can cover kilometres in ...