Recent Progress on Powder Materials for Additive Manufacturing

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing (AM) has rapidly emerged as a transformative technology, offering unique opportunities for producing complex, lightweight, and high-performance components across aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and energy sectors. Central to the success of AM processes is the development and utilization of powder materials, as powder properties directly influence processability, microstructure evolution, and final part quality. Recent advances in powder production techniques, including gas and plasma atomization, mechanical alloying, and chemical routes, have enabled the design of powders with tailored particle size distributions, surface chemistry, and flow characteristics. Simultaneously, progress in powder surface modification, coating strategies, and advanced characterization methods has provided deeper insights into powder behavior during spreading, melting, solidification, and recycling. These innovations are further supported by computational modeling and in situ monitoring, which link powder characteristics to defect formation, mechanical properties, and performance reliability of AM-fabricated parts. This proposed Special Issue of Powder, titled “Recent Progress on Powder Materials for Additive Manufacturing,” will highlight cutting-edge research on powder synthesis, surface engineering, recyclability, powder–process interactions, and structure–property relationships. By bringing together contributions from both academia and industry, the issue aims to advance powder science and accelerate the translation of novel powder technologies into reliable, scalable, and sustainable AM solutions.

Dr. Yachao Wang
Guest Editor

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