{"id":29444,"date":"2016-08-27T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/going-beyond-3d-printing-to-add-a-new-dimension-for-additive-manufacturing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:45:02","slug":"going-beyond-3d-printing-to-add-a-new-dimension-for-additive-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/going-beyond-3d-printing-to-add-a-new-dimension-for-additive-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"Going beyond 3D printing to add a new dimension for additive manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJTSRJPKTxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated the 3D printing of shape-shifting structures that can fold or unfold to reshape themselves when exposed to heat or electricity. The micro-architected structures were fabricated from a conductive, environmentally responsive polymer ink developed at the Lab.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published recently by the journal Scientific Reports (link is external), Lab scientists and engineers revealed a strategy for creating boxes, spirals and spheres from shape memory polymers (SMPs), bio-based \u201csmart\u201d materials that exhibit shape-changes when resistively heated or when exposed to the appropriate temperature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technology.org\/2016\/08\/25\/going-beyond-3d-printing-to-add-a-new-dimension-for-additive-manufacturing\/\">http:\/\/www.technology.org\/2016\/08\/25\/going-beyond-3d-printin...facturing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated the 3D printing of shape-shifting structures that can fold or unfold to reshape themselves when exposed to heat or electricity. The micro-architected structures were fabricated from a conductive, environmentally responsive polymer ink developed at the Lab. In an article published recently by the journal Scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60602,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions\/60602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}