Advanced Material Strategies for Next-Generation Additive Manufacturing

Abstract

Additive manufacturing (AM) has drawn tremendous attention in various fields. In recent years, great efforts have been made to develop novel additive manufacturing processes such as micro-/nano-scale 3D printing, bioprinting, and 4D printing for the fabrication of complex 3D structures with high resolution, living components, and multimaterials. The development of advanced functional materials is important for the implementation of these novel additive manufacturing processes. Here, a state-of-the-art review on advanced material strategies for novel additive manufacturing processes is provided, mainly including conductive materials, biomaterials, and smart materials. The advantages, limitations, and future perspectives of these materials for additive manufacturing are discussed. It is believed that the innovations of material strategies in parallel with the evolution of additive manufacturing processes will provide numerous possibilities for the fabrication of complex smart constructs with multiple functions, which will significantly widen the application fields of next-generation additive manufacturing.

The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review

“…However, AM benefits attract many attentions in the field of manufacturing such as mass-customized production, prototyping, sustainable production, and minimized lead time and cost [9]. Recently, new developments in the AM process has made them more attractive, such as bioprinting, four-dimensional (4D) printing, nano-scale, and metamaterials printing [10]. Also, the other advantage of the AM processes is to help effectively smaller companies and end-users to develop their innovative designs and products themselves as a self-designer and manufacturer [11].…”

How to Formulate for Structure and Texture via Medium of Additive Manufacturing-A Review

“…Materials have long been a barrier to the broader uptake of AM in the manufacturing industry [50]. There are several comprehensive reviews of 3D printing techniques in terms of the materials utilised among them [9,45,[51][52][53][54][55]. The material selection depends on the process and the physical state of the material [13] as well as on the phase transitions or chemical reactions to bind the layers together [56,57].…”

“…Further progress in 3D printing will require the concurrent development of pioneering 3D printing methods in addition to novel feedstocks of material suitable for the devised processing methods [51].…”

Experimental Analysis of Electrical Conductivity of the 3D Printed Graphene

“…It's more reliable to considering the how additive manufacturing methods really different with traditional methods. One of the main reason to using with additive manufacturing processes rather than conventional engineering is the ability to reach the market from prototype design to 3d printed completed electronic circuits in very small spaces with stipulated time [9] [10] . Technology always play the major role to switch over the old manufacturing process to new manufacturing process but in recent years it has been set a new level in the manufacturing field through the 3D printing technology [11] .…”