4D printing enabling self assembling programmable materials such as active carbon fiber

10/15/2014 - 00:00

BY GERARD WARD -

MIT's Self-Assembly Lab has developed materials that can be programmed to transform their shape autonomously -- from flexible carbon fibre and hybrid plastics to wood grains and textiles.

Skylar Tibbits, director of Self-Assembly Lab and research scientist at MIT -- as well as one of the WIRED2014 Innovation Fellows -- spoke to WIRED.co.uk exclusively about his research lab's latest discoveries with these programmable materials.

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