{"id":17807,"date":"2015-09-24T22:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T05:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/4-d-printing-technology-allows-self-folding-of-complex-transformer-objects-using-smart-shape-memory-materials"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:37","slug":"4-d-printing-technology-allows-self-folding-of-complex-transformer-objects-using-smart-shape-memory-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/4-d-printing-technology-allows-self-folding-of-complex-transformer-objects-using-smart-shape-memory-materials","title":{"rendered":"\u20184-D\u2019 printing technology allows self-folding of complex \u2018transformer\u2019 objects, using smart shape-memory materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4-d-printing-technology-allows-self-folding-of-complex-transformer-objects-using-smart-shape-memory-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>This image shows the self-folding process of smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat. Using materials that fold at slightly different rates ensures that the components do not interfere with one another during the process. (credit: Qi Laboratory)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Using components made from smart shape-memory materials (which can return to their original shape) with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a \u201cfour-dimensional\u201d printing technology that allows for creating complex, self-folding structures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/4-d-printing-technology-allows-self-folding-of-complex-transformer-objects-using-smart-shape-memory-materials\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image shows the self-folding process of smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat. Using materials that fold at slightly different rates ensures that the components do not interfere with one another during the process. (credit: Qi Laboratory) Using components made from smart shape-memory materials (which can return to their original shape) with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1991,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69473,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions\/69473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}