4D Printing, Volume 1: Between Disruptive Research and Industrial Applications

Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Preamble: 4D Printing, Between the Why(s) and the How(s)
P.1. Introduction
P.2. Toward a more “total” integration of autonomy and matter
P.3. From research to product(s)
P.4. References
Introduction
I.1. Attempt to define 3D printing
I.2. What about 4D printing?
I.3. An “explosion” of complexities in 4D printing
I.3.1. Stimulation process
I.3.2. Materials
I.3.3. Controlling deformations
I.4. Conclusion
I.5. References
Chapter 1. Is 4D Printing Disruptive or Incremental, or a Bit of Both?
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Prospective approach
1.3. A tectonics of paradigms
1.3.1. 3D printing
1.3.2. 4D printing
1.3.3. The potential development of 4D innovations
1.3.4. Note: example of 4D printing in structural electronics (SE)
1.3.5. Partial conclusion
1.4. 4D printing: breakthrough or increment?
1.4.1. Creativity and 4D printing
1.4.2. Getting out of blindly following? Where to go?
1.4.3. Application to additive manufacturing
1.4.4. Application to 4D printing
1.5. Financial and organizational aspects
1.5.1. Research funding and direction
1.5.2. Constraints/opportunities related to research orientation
1.6. A hopeful conclusion within an organization that learns
1.6.1. General framework
1.6.2. Organizing research in 4D printing
1.7. Appendix 1: Processing an external file
1.8. Appendix 2: Going a step further (working document)
1.8.1. Can we break the deadlock?
1.8.2. So what?
1.9. References
Chapter 2. Is There External Creativity to Support 4D Printing?
2.1. Introduction
2.2. A survey for the general public
2.2.1. The survey
2.2.2. Items not transmitted
2.2.3. Some general survey results
2.2.4. Note: English language survey
2.3. Results of the survey
2.3.1. Specific ideas and proposals (open questions)
2.3.2. Presentation and analysis of the quantified results of the survey
2.4. Discussion
2.4.1. Non-response (voluntary)
2.4.2. Survey responses
2.5. Conclusion
2.6. Appendix 1: The blank survey
2.6.1 What is 4D printing?
2.7. Appendix 2: Answers as of February 16, 2021
2.8. References of scientific articles with “4D printing” or “applications” in their titles
2.9. References
3. Who Would Prevail Today from Lamarck or Darwin to Help the Controlled Evolution of 4D Printing?
Preamble
3.1. Introduction
3.2. General considerations
3.2.1. The 4D fabrications concerned by this chapter
3.2.2. Toward a transposition between theories of nature and 4D printing
3.3. General considerations
3.3.1. The question of arrangements and the control of the arrow of time
3.3.2. Complexity induced by the stimulation
3.3.3. Toward a principle of parsimony?
3.3.4. To go a little further
3.3.5. A partial fallback situation
3.3.6. The reverse problem
3.4. A view from thermodynamics
3.5. Darwin, Lamarck and others…
3.5.1. Between Lamarck and Darwin
3.5.2. Evolutions
3.5.3. Notion of morphogenetic field
3.5.3.1. General considerations
3.5.3.2. From a more practical point of view
3.5.3.3. 4D printing?
3.6. Conclusion
3.7. References
Chapter 4. Toward a Possibly Programmable Self-organization?
4.1. Introduction
4.2. A look at the technology
4.3. Natural (spontaneous) self-organization
4.3.1. Nonlinearities
4.3.2. Achieving the desired shape?
4.4. Self-organization and 3D/4D printing
4.4.1. General considerations
4.4.2. Creation of 3D artifacts
4.4.3. What about 4D printing? Stimulated self-organizing systems: bottom-up coupling
4.4.3.1. Chemical robots
4.4.3.2. Some results of stimulated or constrained self-organization
4.4.4. Can we envisage a “learning” 4D system?
4.4.4.1. Information gathering
4.4.4.2. The act of learning
4.4.4.2.1. First example
4.4.4.2.2. Second example
4.4.4.3. Toward an operating manual
4.4.5. Removal of a blocking element
4.5. Conclusion
4.6. References
Index
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