From touch-sensitive smartphone screens to fitness wearables and wireless earbuds, electronics are becoming ever more ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

Backlash from grocery stores and business groups has prompted San Diego to soften its first-in-the-nation requirement that ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is working hard to make military manufacturing faster, cheaper, and smarter. One ...

We think this is an exciting time where people aren’t just trying to get conventional printing to work well, but are pushing the envelope with new techniques like conical slicing, for example.

Dr Mahdi Bodaghi from Nottingham Trent University explains why 4D printing is the new frontier in materials and manufacturing science.

4D printing advances traditional 3D printing by incorporating the dimension of time, enabling stimuli-responsive shape or behavior changes. Bio-smart materials, crucial to this technology, enable ...

Just as we start to build comfort with 3D printing, scientists throw another dimension at it: another look at 4D printing. 4D printing adds the dimension of time to the now-familiar length, width, and ...

Potential 4D printing applications [Source: IOP Science] A new research paper delivers a comprehensive look at possible applications of 4D printing. 4D printing may at first sound fanciful, but in ...

Researchers have achieved remarkable progress in the field of electromagnetic metamaterials (EMMs) through 3D and 4D printing technologies. This innovation is set to revolutionize multiple ...

This article explores how 4D printing uses biomaterials to create shape-shifting medical devices, adaptive tissue scaffolds and targeted drug delivery systems.