{"id":34965,"date":"2017-02-28T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/novel-3d-printing-technique-uses-magnets-to-create-smart-materials-for-soft-robotics-and-medicine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:59","slug":"novel-3d-printing-technique-uses-magnets-to-create-smart-materials-for-soft-robotics-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/novel-3d-printing-technique-uses-magnets-to-create-smart-materials-for-soft-robotics-and-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Novel 3D printing technique uses magnets to create smart materials for soft robotics and medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-3d-printing-technique-uses-magnets-to-create-smart-materials-for-soft-robotics-and-medicine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research describes a novel 3D printing technique for the production of smart materials that may find use in soft-robotics and advanced medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent academic paper the, \u201cstriking phenomena\u201d that \u201ccan be produced by embedding magnetic particles into polymer with designed patterns,\u201d are described in detail. These phenomena include smart materials with, \u201c<i>tunable elastic properties, giant deformational effects, high elasticity, anisotropic elastic and swelling properties, and quick response to magnetic fields.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported by 3D Printing Industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/playing-sonic-tetris-3d-printed-bricks-improves-levitation-power-sound-106734\/\">investigations into smart and meta materials are increasingly using 3D printing techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/novel-3d-printing-technique-uses-magnets-create-smart-materials-soft-robotics-medicine-106772\/?utm_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/novel-3d-printing-techni...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research describes a novel 3D printing technique for the production of smart materials that may find use in soft-robotics and advanced medicine. In a recent academic paper the, \u201cstriking phenomena\u201d that \u201ccan be produced by embedding magnetic particles into polymer with designed patterns,\u201d are described in detail. These phenomena include smart materials with, \u201ctunable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34965","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\/34965","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58549,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34965\/revisions\/58549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}