Scientific Advances in Additive Manufacturing for Functional and Scalable Industrial 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 July 2027 | Viewed by 20
Editors
Interests: process intensification; catalysis; reactor engineering; mass transfer; CCUS
Interests: process simulation; process engineering; process optimization; process modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing has rapidly evolved from a prototyping tool to an enabling technology for industrial design, manufacturing, and process intensification. This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in additive manufacturing for industrial applications, with a particular focus on how novel materials, design methods, manufacturing strategies, and performance validation are being translated into practical engineering solutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, advanced 3D printing methods, metal and polymer additive manufacturing, design for additive manufacturing, topology optimisation, process intensification, functional and structured components, heat and mass transfer devices, catalytic reactors, flow distributors, energy systems, biomedical and aerospace components, advanced materials, and quality assurance.
The Special Issue particularly welcomes contributions that demonstrate clear industrial relevance, including experimental validation, scale-up, techno-economic considerations, durability assessment, digital design workflows, and integration of additive manufacturing with modelling, simulation, automation, and artificial intelligence. Both original research articles and review papers are encouraged. The overall aim of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for researchers and industry practitioners to present emerging developments that move additive manufacturing beyond laboratory-scale demonstration toward robust, scalable, and commercially relevant industrial implementation.
Dr. Tejas Bhatelia
Dr. Hongmei Yao
Dr. Biao Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- 3D printing
- industrial applications
- design for additive manufacturing
- process intensification
- advanced materials
- topology optimisation
- functional components
- catalytic reactors
- heat and mass transfer
- scale-up
- digital manufacturing
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