{"id":2548,"date":"2016-12-26T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T09:52:56","slug":"smart-materials-self-assembly-article-new-civil-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/smart-materials-self-assembly-article-new-civil-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart materials | Self assembly | Article | New Civil Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/future-tech\/smart-materials-self-assembly\/10015485.article?blocktitle=In-Depth-In-Full&amp;contentID=14369\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/3049107_4dprintingcropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), futuristic materials are taking shape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<p>In a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), futuristic materials are taking shape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storytext\">\n<p>The Self-Assembly Lab conducts research into how we can make materials assemble themselves, or how we can use 4D printing to create pre-programmed materials that behave in predictable ways.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the lab \u2013 which employs scientists and designers across multiple industries, like computer science and mechanical engineering \u2013 is involved in creating pre-programmed shoes. Material with a specific pattern is printed onto a stretched fabric, and released. The material then folds itself into the shape of a shoe, with no human intervention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image image_size_full\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsiveImage\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/3049108_skylartibbitscropped.jpg\" alt=\"Skylar tibbits cropped\" width=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"inline_caption\">Tibbits: 4D printing pioneer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The lab has also created a self-assembling replica of the polio virus (not to scale), which forms itself correctly from separate parts when its container is randomly shaken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/future-tech\/smart-materials-self-assembly\/10015485.article\">Smart materials | Self assembly | Article | New Civil Engineer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), futuristic materials are taking shape. In a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), futuristic materials are taking shape. The Self-Assembly Lab conducts research into how we can make materials assemble themselves, or how we can use 4D printing to create pre-programmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[508,38],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-smart-material","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}