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4D Printing May Lead to Biomedical Implants that Reconfigure Themselves upon Demand

4D Printing May Lead to Biomedical Implants that Reconfigure Themselves upon Demand

Written by David

June 10, 2020

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Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shapeshifting materials, according to scientists.

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Now, Rafael Verduzco, PhD, and graduate student Morgan Barnes of Rice’s Brown School of Engineering say they have developed a method to print objects that can be manipulated to take on alternate forms when exposed to changes in temperature, electric current, or stress.

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The researchers think of this as reactive 4D printing.

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Their work “ Reactive 3D Printing of Shape Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators ” appears in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces . “3D printing […]

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