Additive Manufacturing for Novel and Advanced Materials: Characteristics, Challenges, and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editors
Interests: manufacturing technologies; additive manufacturing; 3D printing; mechanical engineering; mechatronics; materials science and technology; characterization of materials and structures; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; finite element analysis; measurement and metrology; micro- and nanotechnology
Interests: metal additive manufacturing; processing; characterization; lightweight materials; nanocomposites
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, additive manufacturing or 3D printing has marked a spectacular development, contributing majorly to and advancing many key fields such as medicine, the aerospace and automotive industry, robotics, and other top fields. This is due to the unbeatable advantages that it possesses compared to conventional technologies, including design flexibility, customization, rapid prototyping, and minimized waste manufacturing. However, there are some disadvantages related to these technologies such as the limited availability and compatibility of materials in relation to a certain additive process or in terms of quality and post-processing requirements. This represents a challenge and a constant concern for the scientific community to research and find viable solutions in order to improve the field of 3D printing. Nevertheless, additive manufacturing has huge potential for continuous evolution and integration with other advanced technologies through the use of novel and advanced materials and leading technological approaches, which will facilitate the improvement or even the expansion of the areas of applicability.
This Special Issue aims at bringing together the efforts of worldwide researchers and sharing their latest contributions (original research papers or highly valuable review articles) regarding 3D printing or even 4D printing with novel and advanced materials (metal, ceramic, polymer, or composite), using various technological approaches to process them and using theoretical, numerical, and/or experimental methods to characterize them. This Special Issue also welcomes scientific works and outcomes related to existing and future challenges associated with additive manufacturing methods and their impact on current applications, as well as the potential integration of these technologies into new areas of applicability.
Dr. Edgar Moraru
Prof. Dr. Manoj Gupta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- digital manufacturing
- metal additive manufacturing
- ceramic additive manufacturing
- polymer additive manufacturing
- composite additive manufacturing
- 3D printing
- 4D printing
- rapid prototyping
- fused deposition modelling
- vat photopolymerisation
- selective laser melting
- selective laser sintering
- selective electron-beam melting
- powder bed fusion
- binder jetting
- material jetting
- laminated object manufacturing
- direct metal deposition
- resin-based materials
- powder-based materials
- filament-based materials
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