New trends in 4D printing: a critical review

S Vatanparast, A Boschetto, L Bottini, P Gaudenzi - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In a variety of industries, Additive Manufacturing has revolutionized the whole design–
fabrication cycle. Traditional 3D printing is typically employed to produce static components …

Breakthrough in the printing tactics for stimuli-responsive materials: 4D printing

P Rastogi, B Kandasubramanian - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
The idea of 3D printing ever since 1980's has agitated the research domains challenging the
conventional techniques with its inordinate efficiency in the utility of material, superior …

Shape memory performance of PETG 4D printed parts under compression in cold, warm, and hot programming

E Soleyman, D Rahmatabadi… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The main novelty of this paper is the use of poly-ethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) as a
new shape memory polymer with excellent shape memory effect (SME) and printability. In …

A review of fused deposition modelling for 3D printing of smart polymeric materials and composites

KB Mustapha, KM Metwalli - European Polymer Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last 10 years, a dispersion of applications of additive manufacturing (AM) into
various fields has emerged. One area in which AM has created a surge of research interest …

Toward enabling manufacturing paradigm of 4D printing of shape memory materials: Open literature review

I Akbar, M El Hadrouz, M El Mansori… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
The unique characteristics of 4D printing (4DP) and its applications, such as self-morphing,
self-healing, and self-actuation have incorporated and exploited the attractiveness of …

Mechanical performances of lightweight sandwich structures produced by material extrusion-based additive manufacturing

SM Zaharia, LA Enescu, MA Pop - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Material Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing Process (ME-AMP) via Fused Filament
Fabrication (FFF) offers a higher geometric flexibility than conventional technologies to …

Active composites based on shape memory polymers: overview, fabrication methods, applications, and future prospects

SK Melly, L Liu, Y Liu, J Leng - Journal of Materials Science, 2020 - Springer
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have received immense attention from materials research
community thanks to their unrivaled properties such as high recoverable strains (up to …

Recent progress in 4D printed energy-absorbing metamaterials and structures

CW Isaac, F Duddeck - Virtual and Physical Prototy**, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of 4D printing from additive manufacturing has opened new frontiers in
crashworthiness application. Energy-absorbing structures with fixed geometrical shapes and …

4D printed auxetic structures with tunable mechanical properties

MH Yousuf, W Abuzaid, M Alkhader - Additive Manufacturing, 2020 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing has revolutionized the entire design cycle across a wide range of
industries. The majority of materials utilized in 3D printing result in rather rigid structures with …

Investigation on shape recovery of 3D printed honeycomb sandwich structure

M Mehrpouya, A Gisario, A Azizi… - Polymers for Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lightweight sandwich panels have been used in various industry sectors due to their unique
properties as well as a high ratio of stiffness‐to‐weight and energy absorption. Three …