Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Polymer Composites
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 672
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fiber-reinforced polymer composites; cold spray-based additive manufacturing; 3D/4D printing
Interests: carbon-fiber-reinforced composites; ultrasonic welding; ultrasonic additive manufacturing; resistance welding dissimilar materials joining; lightweight materials joining
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Dear Colleagues,
Polymeric composites with fibers as reinforcement have gained the attention of researchers as well as industrialists. These composite materials have a high strength-to-weight ratio and have therefore become involved in a wide range of applications. Traditional manufacturing techniques, such as pultrusion, injection molding, resin transfer molding, filament winding, etc., have been adopted to manufacture fiber-reinforced polymer composites. However, these techniques require the usage of molds, thereby making them expensive. Furthermore, it is costly to produce complex and customized parts using these techniques.
Three-dimensional printing (3DP), also known as additive manufacturing, has arisen as a solution to the abovementioned challenges. Production using 3D printing involves printing successive data layers from a 3D model to create various materials, structures, and complicated geometries. This Special Issue, entitled “Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Polymer Composites”, addresses the cutting-edge 3DP technologies used for polymer composites. The aim of this Special Issue is to broaden knowledge on recent scientific improvements in various aspects of 3DP technologies for polymer composites.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) 3DP processes: extrusion-based process, laser-based process, photopolymerization-based process, laminated object-based, hybrid process, etc.
(2) Printed materials: thermoset and thermoplastic composites, continuous and discontinuous fiber composites.
(3) Forming mechanism: modeling and simulation are encouraged to understand the physics and/or chemistry of 3DP technologies for polymer composites.
(4) Microstructure and properties: characterization and evaluation of printed materials in terms of microstructure and their mechanical, thermal, and corrosion properties.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Kaifeng Wang
Dr. Yang Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer composites
- thermoset and thermoplastic composites
- continuous and discontinuous fiber
- 3D printing
- additive manufacturing
- structure design
- modeling and simulation
- microstructure and properties
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