For example, measuring from video the biomechanics of an Olympic athlete performing a world-record high-jump. My research is pioneering the next generation of 4D computer vision, capable of sensing ...

4D printing involves the production of materials that change their shape, characteristics, or function when subjected to environmental triggers. This transformative process leverages “smart” materials ...

The advent of 4D printing takes the concept a step further. Shape-memory materials are at the core of 4D printing technology, providing the ability to program temporary shapes that revert to the ...

The work is published in Advanced Functional Materials. “Our work introduces a novel platform, using embedded bioprinting to bioprint tissues that undergo programmable and predictable 4D ...

More information: Ankita Pramanick et al, 4D Bioprinting Shape‐Morphing Tissues in Granular Support Hydrogels: Sculpting Structure and Guiding Maturation, Advanced Functional Materials (2024).

Scientists at the University of Galway have developed a new way of 4D bioprinting tissue cells that can change shape, bringing us a step closer to manufacturing organs for humans. The researchers ...

using embedded bioprinting to bioprint tissues that undergo programmable and predictable 4D shape-morphing driven by cell-generated forces. Using this new process, we found that shape-morphing ...

Instead of space-time’s three spatial dimensions and one of time, the physics of our world could be encoded into a set of odd geometrical shapes – and studying them may chart a new ...