Additive Manufacturing of Polymer-Based Materials and Lightweight Structures, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editor
Interests: additive manufacturing; continuous carbon-fiber-reinforced composites; lightweight design; porous structures; fatigue
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Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of our previous Special Issue of Polymers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers/special_issues/H46C2T3618), we are delighted to launch a second edition, now entitled “Additive Manufacturing of Polymer-Based Materials and Lightweight Structures, 2nd Edition”.
The demand for lightweight materials in the fields of transportation, biomedicine, aerospace, etc., is fueling the rapid development of the technologies used to manufacture polymers, continuous carbon-fiber-reinforced composites, and lightweight structures such as honeycomb lattices.
Additive manufacturing (AM) technology uses the gradual accumulation of materials to manufacture physical parts, making it a "bottom-up" manufacturing method. Due to the "dimensionality reduction manufacturing" used in its slicing process, the technology overcomes many of the limitations of traditional processing methods. In recent years, the use of additive technology to prepare polymer-based materials and lightweight structures has been accepted by the industry.
This Special Issue will report on the most recent progress made in various aspects of additively manufactured polymer-based materials and lightweight structures, such as innovative design principles and methods for lightweight structures, new AM processes for polymer-based materials, functional structures realized using polymer-based materials, and lightweight structures. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather together recent findings from the research community to create a forum in which key challenges and opportunities can be identified, state-of-the-art research can be shared, and advancements in research related to additively manufactured polymer-based materials and lightweight structures can be promoted. Both original research and review works are welcome to be submitted to this Special Issue.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Emerging and innovative AM technologies for polymer-based materials and lightweight structures;
- Design and optimization of novel polymer-based materials and lightweight structures for AM;
- Microstructure and property characterization of additively manufactured lightweight materials and structures;
- Simulation analysis of the additive manufacturing process and performances of polymer-based materials and lightweight structures;
- Research into the application of lightweight additive manufacturing materials such as continuous carbon-fiber-reinforced composites, polymers, etc.;
- Research into the application of lightweight additive manufacturing structures such as biomimetic structures, biological structures, metastructures, etc.;
- Four-dimensional printing of lightweight materials and structures to achieve controlled changes in shape, performance, and function.
Dr. Lei Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- lightweight structures
- polymers
- continuous carbon-fiber-reinforced composites
- functional design
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