Design and Manufacturing of Bioinspired Material and Structures
This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, a paradigm shift in modern materials science and technology from geometry-centered usage to function-focused applications is taking place. Nature has developed high-performance materials and structures over millions of years of evolution, providing valuable inspiration for the design of next generation functional structures and materials. However, the complicated structural architectures in nature far exceed the capability of traditional design and fabrication technologies, which hinders the progress of biomimetic study and its use in engineering systems. Biomimetic design and manufacturing promote possibilities in manipulating and mimicking the multiscale, multimaterial, and multifunctional structures with excellent acoustical, optical, electrical, thermal, mechanical, and hydrodynamic properties, to name but a few examples.
The aim of this SI is to understand the basic design principles and physical/chemical mechanisms that determine optimized structural organization in biological systems and its relationship to function. Moreover, based on the identified physical/chemical principle, we wish to investigate pathways for the synthesis and manufacturing of biomimetic materials and structures. This SI will focus on research advances in the areas of bioinspired advanced design and manufacturing of functional structures and materials for future engineering systems. The growth of bioinspired design and manufacturing technology will open intriguing perspectives for developing materials and structures on the basis of novel manufacturing processes together with new computer-aided design and simulation methods.
Dr. Xiangjia Li
Dr. Yang Yang
Prof. Dr. Tsz Ho Kwok
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- design, modeling, and simulation of bioinspired structures and material systems for 3D printing
- field (electric, magnetic, acoustic, optical, shear force, thermal, etc.) assisted 3D printing
- templating (gas, ice, salt, sugar, etc.) based 3D printing
- innovative 3D printing processes for bioinspired material and structures fabrication
- 4D printing of active materials
- 3D printing of bioinspired metamaterials and metasurfaces
- 3D printing of electronic devices (circuits, sensors, antennas, piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, optoelectronics, etc.)
- 3D printing of energy harvest, storage, and conversion devices (batteries, supercapacitors, solar cells, fuel cells, etc.)
- 3D printing of bioinspired functional surfaces (hydrophobic, oleophobic, hydrodynamic, microfluidic, etc.)
- advanced applications of bioinspired 3D printing in mechanics, optics, and thermal physics
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Published Papers
Materials - ISSN 1996-1944