Glossary
4D Printing Materials

3D Food

3D printing of food.

Agnotology

Science of non-knowledge.

Anisotropy

Property of being direction-dependent. A 3D object is anisotropic because, before post-processing, it has different characteristics depending on its orientation.

Self-repair

Material that repairs itself after deterioration.

Bottom-up

From below.

Bio-printing

Bio-printing is an emerging topic in additive manufacturing technologies, aimed at manufacturing living organs and tissues.

Biomimicry

An approach that draws on the ingenuity of living organisms' mechanisms, properties and functions to innovate.

Complexity

Behavior of a system whose components interact in a non-linear way.

Buildability

Design and implementation of a manufacturing project to guarantee its performance in use.

Convergence

Focusing...