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A material used in running shoes and memory foam pillows has inspired the design of a 3D-printed product that could help protect buildings from
A researcher from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has discovered a way to 3D print a shock absorbing material that could protect buildings from car crashes and other sources of damage.
The design of a 3D-printed product has gained inspiration from a material utilized in memory foam pillows and running shoes. This could help safeguard buildings from collision damage and other high-impact forces, comparable to a car traveling at 60 km/hour.
Edible devices are an emergent technology which seek to provide researchers and health professionals with smart constructs to monitor the gastrointestinal tract without the traditional risks of retention as they are constructed from bioresorbable materials. However, this field is very much still in its infancy and as such, simple materials development to enable these ingestible technologies needs to be explored. To aid in the state-of-the-art of this scientific field a variety of edible materials were modified to display smart functionalities such as conductivity, actuation, solvent extraction...
4D printing is nothing more than a digital manufacturing technology, 3D printing, which includes a new dimension: the temporal.