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Emerging pathway to create highly deformable, dynamic, and adaptive devices involves 3D printing of soft materials that can actively deform and reconfigure in response to external stimuli. This approach has been recently termed 4D printing, with the 4th dimension being the time-dependent morphing or shape transformation after the 3D printing. The goal of this research thrust is (i) to develop 3D printable soft materials with magnetically programmable materials behavior, (ii) to better understand mechanics of soft materials exhibiting large deformation and tunable mechanical properties, and (iii) to design and fabricate soft robots whose actuation and motion can be actively and reversibly controlled with magnetic field.
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