Advances in Additive Manufacturing of Crystalline Materials
A Special Issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352) belonging to the section "Crystalline Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2027 | Viewed by 250
Editors
Interests: high-entropy alloys; high-entropy ceramics; TWIP-TRIP steels; high-Mn steels; additive manufacturing; thermomechanical processing; powder metallurgy; spark plasma sintering; deformation mechanisms; microstructure evolution; nanostructured materials; materials science
Interests: high-entropy ceramics and alloys; nanostructured and amorphous materials; thin films for advanced coatings; materials for energy and catalysis applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing has emerged as a transformative approach for producing complex, high-performance materials and components with unprecedented design flexibility. Recent advances in powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition, binder jetting, material extrusion, vat photopolymerization, and hybrid manufacturing are enabling the fabrication of metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and functionally graded materials with tailored structures and properties. In crystalline materials, additive manufacturing offers unique opportunities to control solidification behavior, crystallographic texture, grain morphology, defect structures, phase evolution, and microstructure–property relationships. These features are especially important for applications in aerospace, biomedical devices, energy systems, tooling, electronics, and advanced structural materials.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for recent research on the processing, characterization, modeling, and performance evaluation of additively manufactured materials. Contributions focusing on process optimization, microstructural control, crystallization mechanisms, defect mitigation, post-processing treatments, mechanical behavior, corrosion and oxidation resistance, fatigue, wear, and functional properties are particularly welcome. Studies combining experimental work with computational modeling, machine learning, in situ monitoring, or multi-scale characterization are also encouraged. The Special Issue seeks to highlight current challenges and future directions in additive manufacturing technologies and to promote a deeper understanding of how processing conditions govern crystal structure, microstructure, and final material performance.
Dr. Moshen Saboktakin Rizi
Dr. Hossein Minouei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- 3D printing
- powder bed fusion
- directed energy deposition
- crystalline materials
- microstructure–property relationships
- solidification
- crystallographic texture
- defect control
- post-processing
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