Hiroya Tanaka, Professor at Keio University Global Research Institute, Design and Manufacuturing Center for emergent circularity will explain how they created the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games podium using recycled materials and how they have recycled it as acoustic metamaterials using 4D Printing.

Other speakers at the 4D Printing Conference are:

• MD Nahin Islam Shiblee, Assistant Professor, Yamagata University, Japan, on 'Smart Structures via 4D printing of Hydrogel Materials'
• Stefano Pandini, Assistant professor, Materials Science and Technology Laboratory (MaSTLab), University of Brescia, Italy, on 'Exploiting the temperature-memory effect in 3D printed auxetic structures: from experimental design to analytic simulation'
• Bijaya Bikram Samal, PhD Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, on 'Controlled shape changing components using 4D printing technology by fused filament fabrication'
• Tiffany Cheng, Research Associate, Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), Germany, on 'Material programming for 4D-printing'
• Charbel Dalely Tawk, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong Dubai, on '3D Printed Soft Robotic Grippers with Integrated Metamaterials'
• Suong Van Hoa, Professor / Director, Concordia University, Center for Composites (CONCOM), on 'Development of a new flexible wing concept for unmanned aerial vehicles using corrugated core made by 4D printing of composites'

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