4D Printing: State-of-the-Art, Recent Trends and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 1011
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: Light-matter interactions; 3D printing; 4D printing; epistemology; bio-printing; creativity; Interdisciplinarity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Four-dimensional printing stems from the possibility expressed by Tibbits in 2013 of combining 3D printing and smart materials to create parts that, under specific energy stimulation, can change shape and/or functionality. This opens up an exciting new world where research can explore the three dimensions of space and time. The field is rapidly developing (at a rate of 44% per year in terms of publications), primarily focusing on active materials. However, the socioeconomic world has yet to fully embrace this new technology and its immense potential for innovation and imagination.
The objective of this Special Issue is to demonstrate how science can contribute to practical applications. Critical interdependencies between scientific disciplines play a crucial role, such as understanding inter-voxel printability issues or optimizing the interaction between 4D objects and their preferred mode of stimulation. Clearly, factors such as yields, mechanical strength, adverse effects, etc., must be taken into account to develop design methods that are suited to the limitations of certain quantitative data.
This emerging field is filled with excitement, requiring creativity, interdisciplinarity, and an epistemological approach that is open to applications. While the bottom-up approach is valuable, it is not the only path to successfully integrating science and technology into clever and robust usage. It is important to explore alternative approaches and, if possible, invent new methods. This Special Issue aims to explore a fraction of the long journey towards short-, mid-, and long-term robust and exciting applications that harness the potential of 4D printing (with its numerous degrees of freedom compared to 3D printing).
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Demoly
Dr. Jean Claude André
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 4D printing
- design
- innovative application
- trends
- forecasting and imagination
- invention
- epistemology
