Advances in Polymers Additive Manufacturing
A Special Issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) belonging to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 852
Editors
Interests: corrosion; surface engineering; additive manufacturing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: materials science; surface engineering; additive manufacturing; failure analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the Special Issue “Advances in Polymer Additive Manufacturing.” Polymer-based additive manufacturing continues to evolve rapidly, driven by breakthroughs in materials, process engineering, and application-specific design. This Special Issue seeks high‑quality original research articles, reviews, and communications that explore recent developments in high‑performance and sustainable polymers, multi‑material and functional printing, polymer bioprinting, computational- and AI‑assisted optimization, and innovations that enhance structure–property–processing relationships, recyclability, and scalability.
We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from materials science, polymer chemistry, engineering, and applied technologies. Studies that address emerging industrial, medical, or environmental applications are particularly encouraged.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Novel polymer materials for AM;
- High‑performance, bio‑based, and sustainable polymers;
- Multi‑material and functional printing strategies;
- Polymer bioprinting and biomedical applications;
- Advanced characterization and structure–property analysis;
- AI‑ and simulation‑assisted design and process optimization;
- Recyclability, circular economy approaches, and waste reduction;
- Industrial-scale polymer AM technologies and applications.
Dr. Gabriela Mǎrginean
Prof. Dr. Doina Frunzăverde
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Polymers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- polymer additive manufacturing
- high performance polymers
- polymer composites
- multi material printing
- sustainable materials
- bioprinting
- process optimization
- AI in AM
- structure–property relationships
- recyclability
- advanced applications.
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