3D-Printed Polymeric Architectures: Metamaterials, Lattice Structures and Biomimetic Design

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing has opened new opportunities for designing polymeric architectures with programmable geometries, lightweight characteristics, and tailored mechanical responses. In particular, polymer-based metamaterials, lattice structures, and biomimetic architectures provide effective routes to achieving unusual deformation mechanisms, enhanced energy absorption, high specific stiffness, and multifunctional performance.

This Special Issue, entitled “3D-Printed Polymeric Architectures: Metamaterials, Lattice Structures and Biomimetic Design”, aims to present recent advances in the design, fabrication, characterization, and numerical modeling of architected polymer systems produced by 3D printing. Contributions addressing structure–process–property relationships, topology and multiscale optimization, advanced polymer and composite materials, mechanical behavior, damage and failure mechanisms, and functional or stimuli-responsive architectures are particularly welcome. Applications in aerospace, transportation, biomedical engineering, soft robotics, protective systems, and sustainable manufacturing are also of interest.

We invite researchers to submit original research articles, reviews, and short communications that advance the fundamental understanding and engineering applications of 3D-printed polymeric architectures.

Dr. Zhengxian Liu
Guest Editor

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