4D Printing and Society-Preparing for the 4D Printing of the Next Future
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2022) | Viewed by 470
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design for 3D/4D printing; multi-material additive manufacturing; smart materials; voxel-based modeling; 4D printing knowledge formalization; artificial intelligence-based design
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Interests: design for 3D/4D printing; multi-material additive manufacturing; smart materials; voxel-based modeling; 4D printing knowledge formalization; artificial intelligence-based design
Interests: polymer physics and mechanics; nonlinear solid mechanics; computational mechanics; soft active materials; shape memory polymers; light activated polymers; polymers with dynamic covalent bonds (vitrimer); 3D/4D printing; design of functional structures using active polymers and 3D printing
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Interests: Light-matter interactions; 3D printing; 4D printing; epistemology; bio-printing; creativity; Interdisciplinarity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the emergence of the 4D printing paradigm in 2013, approximately two thousand high-level research works have been published, and while there is an intense desire to pave the field from a scientific perspective, the maturity of the technology reminds us of additive manufacturing from several decades earlier, and the inherent difficulties in its easy use in society through manufacturing industries. To overcome this fast-approaching issue, it is necessary to (i) further investigate 4D printing by simultaneously considering the potentiality of the use and improved performances of 4D-printed devices in a way to highlight the avenues of satisfactory developments, and (ii) carry out more prospective approaches and disruptive ideas. In general, we are too far into the situation where, for various good reasons, researchers explore this very dynamic and attractive field with proposals, a somewhat provocative matter of "solution seeks problem" type of situations. This bottom-up approach cannot be the only one to successfully implement science and technology into clever and/or robust use. It is worthwhile to think about other ways and, if possible, to partly invent differently. This Special Issue aims to explore a fraction of the long road of short-, mid-, and long-term (possible) robust and exciting applications empowering the 4D printing potential (with its many degrees of freedom relative to 3D printing).
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Demoly
Dr. Lining Yao
Prof. Dr. H Jerry Qi
Dr. Jean Claude André
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 4D printing
- design
- innovative application
- trends
- forecasting and imagination
- invention
