Additively Manufactured Smart Materials and Structures

Additively Manufactured Smart Materials and Structures: Design, Processing, and Applications provides a critical overview of the fabrication, design, processing, characterization, structure-property relationships, and applications of 3D printed smart materials. It practically outlines design strategies and manufacturing techniques across a variety of disciplines, including membrane technology, catalysis, batteries, supercapacitors, sensing and biosensing, aerospace, automobile, construction, and biomedical. The book conducts a critical evaluation of the scientific literature that has already been published to highlight the significance, the technoeconomic aspects, the major difficulties, and the benefits and drawbacks of additively built smart materials. Advanced 3D printing techniques including stereolithography (SLA), fused deposition modeling (FDM), selective laser sintering (SLS), electron beam melting (EBM), direct ink writing (DIW), and 3D plotting are discussed in detail and the book also offers a thorough analysis of the microstructure, mechanical, thermal, and surface properties of smart materials and structures produced using additive manufacturing.

• Provides a review of the recent advances, design techniques, technological challenges, and applications of additively manufactured smart materials
• Discusses the microstructure, mechanical, thermal, and surface properties of additively manufactured smart materials
• Covers the fundamentals of all additive manufacturing techniques, fabrication, processing, design strategies, and various properties of additively manufactured smart materials
• Explores various printing issues and new challenges associated with the development of advanced functional materials and structures using AM or 3D printing techniques