{"id":88678,"date":"2019-03-15T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/4d-printing-multi-metal-products-with-a-desktop-electrochemical-3d-printer"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:02:36","slug":"4d-printing-multi-metal-products-with-a-desktop-electrochemical-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/4d-printing-multi-metal-products-with-a-desktop-electrochemical-3d-printer","title":{"rendered":"4D printing multi-metal products with a desktop electrochemical 3D printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4d-printing-multi-metal-products-with-a-desktop-electrochemical-3d-printer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four-dimensional (4D) printing can create complex 3D geometries that react to environmental stimuli, opening new design opportunities in materials science. A vast majority of 4D printing approaches use polymer materials, which limit the operational temperature during the process of engineering. In a recent study, Xiaolong Chen and co- workers at the Dyson School of Design and Engineering, Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Department of Materials at the Imperial College of London, U.K., developed a new multi-metal electrochemical 3D printer. The device was able to construct bimetallic geometries by selectively depositing different metals with temperature-responsive behavior programmed into the printed structure. In the study, they demonstrated a meniscus confined electrochemical 3D printing approach using a multi-print head design and nickel and copper materials as examples, the ability can be transferred to other deposition solutions. The results are now published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-03-d-multi-metal-products-desktop-electrochemical.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019&#45;03-d-multi-metal-produc...mical.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-dimensional (4D) printing can create complex 3D geometries that react to environmental stimuli, opening new design opportunities in materials science. A vast majority of 4D printing approaches use polymer materials, which limit the operational temperature during the process of engineering. In a recent study, Xiaolong Chen and co- workers at the Dyson School of Design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1991,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-4d-printing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88678","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}