Call for Papers
Additive manufacturing of designer biomedical and bioinspired materials
This special issue aims to present a snapshot of the latest developments and current trends in the design and additive manufacturing of materials that are either aimed for biomedical applications or use inspirations from biology to create advanced functionalities and superior properties.
Natural materials including human cells and tissues use a myriad of design principles such as complex geometries, functional gradients, the spatial distribution of material properties, and hierarchical designs to create superior properties and advanced functionalities that help sustain the lives of many organisms. Recent advances in additive manufacturing (AM, = 3D printing) techniques including those capable of creating multi-scale and multi-material materials have enabled fabrication of engineered materials that use similar design principles as those used in natural materials either to replace damaged tissues as (regenerative) implants or to facilitate progress in a host of other types of (engineering) applications. This special issue aims to present a snapshot of the latest developments and current trends in the design and additive manufacturing of materials that are either aimed for biomedical applications or use inspirations from biology to create advanced functionalities and superior properties. We invite interested authors to submit their research and review papers in the following and related areas for review and possible inclusion in this special issue:
- 3D printed architected (bio)materials
- Additively manufactured mechanical metamaterials
- Novel additive manufacturing techniques and their application to biomedical and bioinspired materials
- Novel metallic, polymeric, and ceramic (bio)materials for 3D printing applications
- Additively manufactured porous biomaterials
- Bio-functionalization of additively manufactured biomaterials (e.g., through coatings and drug delivery systems)
- Multi-material and multi-scale additive bio-manufacturing
- Biofabrication of tissues, organs, and disease models
- Patient-specific 3D printed biomaterials and implants
- 3D printing of auxetic, stiff, tough, or lightweight materials
- Mechanics of additively manufactured porous biomaterials (e.g., lattice structures)
- 4D printing and shape-shifting in biomedical and bioinspired materials
- Additive manufacturing of biodegradable materials
- In vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo evaluation of the performance of 3D printed biomaterials
- The relationship between processing parameters, microstructure, and mechanical properties of additively manufactured biomaterials
Guest Editors
Prof. Amir A. Zadpoor, Delft University of Technology
Dr. Mohammad Mirzaali, Delft University of Technology
Important dates
Submission deadline: 1 October 2019
The submitted papers will be reviewed and published as they are submitted to minimize the submission to publication time.