Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer-Based Composites

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is a layer-by-layer manufacturing technology that has been widely used to fabricate intricate structures with complex and/or customized architectures. Commonly used polymer-based 3D printing techniques encompass extrusion, digital light/lasers, and inkjet-based 3D printing. Carbon-, metal-, and ceramic-based nanomaterials, with at least one dimension sized between 1 and 100 nm, can be integrated into polymer-based AM systems, in which nanomaterials are dispersed in a polymer matrix to fabricate objects with desired and improved performance, such as enhanced mechanical, optical, electrical, and biological properties. These 3D-printed polymer–nanomaterial integrations can find a variety of applications in the biomedical, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and construction fields. Hence, developing nanomaterial-integrated polymer-based AM systems has been of great interest to researchers.

Dr. Qianhui Liu
Prof. Dr. Abraham Joy
Dr. Siyang Wang
Dr. Haoran Wang
Dr. Xinhao Liu
Guest Editors

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