Stratasys' "programmable materials" are a technological breakthrough. Just when many folks on Main Street were being introduced to 3D printing last year, a new technology that makes it seem downright ...

Drawing inspiration from how plants change shape in response to environmental stimuli, Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The colors in the world around us are produced through either absorption of light by molecules (pigmentary colors) or scattering of light by nanostructures (structural colors).

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Compared to creating static objects with 3D printing, 4D printing systems add time as the fourth dimension to 3D printing: 4D printing allows a 3D printed structure to change its ...

A new grant from the U.S. Army Research Office will split $855,000 between three research teams working on so-called “4D printing.” By military budget standards, that’s chump change—but it hints at a ...

Dr Mahdi Bodaghi from Nottingham Trent University explains why 4D printing is the new frontier in materials and manufacturing science. Imagine buying a flat sheet from a furniture store that changes ...

Whilst 3D printing continues to grow in popularity, some scientists are already looking at the next step – how to make their objects transform from one shape to another using 4D printing. Essentially, ...

Using a 3D printer, people can already determine the length, width and depth of an object that they create. Thanks to research being conducted at the University of Colorado, Boulder, however, a fourth ...

The healthcare industry will be among the first to reap the benefits of emerging four-dimensional printing technology, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. [See also: Triple aim] The ...