{"id":205405,"date":"2025-02-03T23:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/3d-printing-approach-for-shape-changing-materials-means-better-biomedical-energy-robotics-devices"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:41:27","slug":"3d-printing-approach-for-shape-changing-materials-means-better-biomedical-energy-robotics-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/3d-printing-approach-for-shape-changing-materials-means-better-biomedical-energy-robotics-devices","title":{"rendered":"3D printing approach for shape-changing materials means better biomedical, energy, robotics devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printing-approach-for-shape-changing-materials-means-better-biomedical-energy-robotics-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Oregon State University researcher has helped create a new 3D printing approach for shape-changing materials that are likened to muscles, opening the door for improved applications in robotics as well as biomedical and energy devices.<\/p>\n<p>The liquid crystalline elastomer structures printed by Devin Roach of the OSU College of Engineering and collaborators can crawl, fold and snap directly after printing. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202414209\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLCEs are basically soft motors,\u201d said Roach, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. \u201cSince they\u2019re soft, unlike regular motors, they work great with our inherently soft bodies. So they can be used as implantable medical devices, for example, to deliver drugs at targeted locations, as stents for procedures in target areas, or as urethral implants that help with incontinence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Oregon State University researcher has helped create a new 3D printing approach for shape-changing materials that are likened to muscles, opening the door for improved applications in robotics as well as biomedical and energy devices. The liquid crystalline elastomer structures printed by Devin Roach of the OSU College of Engineering and collaborators can crawl, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205405","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}