Taking Printing to the Fourth Dimension

January 30, 2016

3-D printing has come a long way since it was first developed more than thirty years ago. Now, a team of Harvard scientists have created 4D-printed structures that are capable of changing shape.

4D-Printed Structure Changes Shape When Placed in Water

January 25, 2016

Wyss, SEAS researchers create shape-shifting architectures that mimic plant movements.

The Path to Printed Body Parts

January 1, 2016

Scientists are making steady progress toward 3-D printed tissues and organs.

Lewis elected as a NAI Fellow

December 15, 2015

Donald Ingber and Jennifer Lewis have been recognized as distinguished American inventors whose technologies are poised to benefit society.

Collegiate Inventors Competition Announces 2015 Graduate and Undergraduate Winners

November 19, 2015

Congratulations to David Kolesky, Winner of the 2015 Collegiate Inventors Competition for his invention of 3D Bioprinting Vascularized Human Tissue

Soft Strain Sensors Fabricated Through Additive Manufacturing

June 30, 2015

The scarcity of “off-the-shelf” soft electronic components has curtailed the development of wearable devices, essential for biomechanical studies and even for patient rehabilitation applications. Addressing this challenge, a team led by Jennifer Lewis and Conor Walsh at Harvard University has now harnessed additive manufacturing (also known as three-dimensional printing) to make soft capacitive strain sensors composed of multicore–shell fibers. ...

Printed spider webs get tough

May 27, 2015

Using a 3D printer, researchers have created spider-web analogues out of elastic polymer threads and tweaked their architectures to maximize the webs' strength.

Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business 2015

May 11, 2015

At January’s Consumer Electronics Show, Jennifer Lewis, a biological engineering professor at Harvard with 10 patents to her name, unveiled a potentially revolutionary new technology: the world’s first 3-D printer capable of spitting out fully functional electronics

Print Your Heart Out

May 9, 2015

Jennifer A. Lewis of Harvard University has adopted a different approach to the vasculature problem. Her group is using a sacrificial ink to print smaller channels, tens to hundreds of micrometers in diameter.

Microcapsules collect carbon dioxide

February 12, 2015

Microcapsules containing a liquid carbonate solvent could capture carbon dioxide from power plants more efficiently than existing methods.

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