From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing 2 : Current Techniques, Improvements and Their Limitations.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- I.1. Introduction -- I.2. Bibliography -- PART 1: Incremental Innovations and Technologies Pushed to their Limits -- 1 Incremental Developments of Processes, Machines and Materials -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Undertaking non-layered stereolithography -- 1.3. Challenging the notion of layers -- 1.4. Optical-quality surface finish -- 1.5. Cold-cast metal 3D printing -- 1.6. Colored objects -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 1.8. Bibliography -- PART 2: Additive Manufacturing Pushed to its Limits -- Introduction to Part 2 -- I.1. Introduction -- I.2. Overall framework -- I.3. Bibliography -- 2 μ-Fluidics (or Microfluidics) -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Review of microfluidics -- 2.3. Applications -- 2.4. Return to additive manufacturing -- 2.5. Conclusive outcomes -- 2.6. The converse problem: a potential μ-fluidics application to additive manufacturing -- 2.7. Provisional concept -- 2.8. Conclusion -- 2.9. Bibliography -- 3 3D Nanomanufacturing, 3D μ-Electronics and μ-Robotics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. 3D nano-facturing -- 3.3. 3D μ-electronics -- 3.4. Actuators and μ-robots -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. Bibliography -- PART 3: How Should We Go That One Step Further? -- 4 A Short Reflection on Spheres to Explore Their Conditions for Achieving Success -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Favored spheres of innovation -- 4.3. Some conditions to ensure additive manufacturing reaches maturity? -- 4.4. A positive conclusion -- 4.5. Bibliography -- 5 Questions of Hope and "Unhope" -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The "lab-tribe" (LT) approach -- 5.3. Creativity's place in research -- 5.4. Innovation, a consequence of creativity -- 5.5. What solutions to evoke for additive manufacturing?.

5.6. In the form of a conclusion: a summary of the author's point of view -- 5.7. Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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