Recent Advances in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, also known as 3D printing, have been growing rapidly in recent years. These advanced technologies offer new capabilities to process materials with unique structures and properties that can hardly be achieved by conventional manufacturing techniques. Due to their layer-by-layer approaches, complex 3D parts made of metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites can be additively manufactured for a wide range of applications, including aerospace, automobiles, medical applications, machinery, electronics, food, textile, construction, and architecture.

This Special Issue focuses on state-of-the-art additive manufacturing methods, novel materials, together with advanced pre- and post-processing techniques. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Recent development of new materials;
• Novel approaches to improve established additive manufacturing methods;
• Four-dimensional printing and multi-material printing;
• Pre- and post-processing of additively manufactured parts;
• Process monitoring and quality control methods for additive manufacturing;
• Characterization methods for additively manufactured parts;
• Novel and emerging applications for additive manufacturing.

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit full length research papers, review papers, perspectives as well as communications and letters for this Special Issue on, titled “Recent Advances in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Technology”.

Dr. Thang Quyet Tran
Guest Editor

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