Time for a Change.
The article discusses some of the applications that might become possible with a new technique known as 4D printing. Topics discussed include the global market for 3D printing products and services reaching 2.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2012 according to industry analysis firm Wohlers Associates, a ba...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 6; pp. 16 - 19 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jun2014
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| Sumario: | The article discusses some of the applications that might become possible with a new technique known as 4D printing. Topics discussed include the global market for 3D printing products and services reaching 2.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2012 according to industry analysis firm Wohlers Associates, a basic characterization of how a 3D printed object that alters shape becomes a 4D-printed object, and 3D bioprinting as being considered a form of 4D printing according to Bio/Nano/Programmable Matter Group head Carlos Olguin. |
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