Regularly Structured Porous Materials and New Discoveries in Additive Manufacturing
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Porous Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 705
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid developments in materials and production technologies have made it possible to produce new types of sophisticated components that are significantly lighter than traditional products whose entire volume consists of solid material. Such components are composed of materials characterized by a periodic or stochastic arrangement of open or closed pores, leading to differing characteristics in terms of their topology, whether they are two-dimensional configurations of structures (e.g., honeycomb), three-dimensional polyhedral arrangements (e.g., lattice structures), or three-dimensional periodic complex shapes (e.g., minimum areas). These specific materials can provide a product with an extraordinary combination of mechanical, physical, and chemical properties compared to full-volume materials. The desire to incorporate sophisticated structures into component design is motivated by the aspiration to increase the added value of the product, shorten the production time, and reduce the consumption of expensive materials. Regarding the expected properties, the use of such constructions appears to be very promising, not only in the areas of industry (automotive, marine, aviation, aerospace, engineering, construction), medicine, biomedicine, and health care, but also in products of daily use or household appliances.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Recent innovations in materials with a regular distribution of pores (cellular materials/mesoporous materials/metamaterials/lightweight materials);
- Mechanical/chemical/physical properties;
- Testing, analysis, simulation, and behavior;
- Production and processing;
- Application.
Prof. Dr. Katarina Monkova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- regularly structured porous materials
- design
- preparation
- application
- properties
- testing
- analysis
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