AI and Machine Learning Driven Design and Quality Control in 3D Bioprinting and Soft Material Fabrication
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Recent advances in 3D bioprinting and soft material fabrication have enabled increasingly complex structures and functions to be realized across biomedical, biological, and manufacturing applications. At the same time, the fabrication processes underlying these systems remain highly sensitive to interactions among materials, processing conditions, and environmental factors. As a result, achieving reproducible outcom…
Additive Manufacturing of Smart Materials
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Additive manufacturing (AM) of smart materials combines advanced fabrication with materials that can sense, respond, or adapt to their environment. Unlike conventional materials, smart materials enable components that can change shape, self-heal, or react to external stimuli. When paired with AM, these materials can be precisely structured into multifunctional and lightweight designs. This synergy opens new possibil…
Additively Manufactured Metamaterials: from Theory to Applications
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Additively manufactured metamaterials represent a rapidly evolving frontier in materials engineering, combining advanced fabrication techniques with architected microstructures to achieve unprecedented mechanical, thermal, and multifunctional properties. Unlike conventional materials, metamaterials derive their behaviour primarily from geometry rather than composition, enabling designers to tailor properties such as…
Alloy Design, Process-Chain Optimisation and Advanced Characterisation for Metal Additive Manufacturing
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
This Collection focuses on physically informed and resource-efficient process-chain design for metal additive manufacturing (AM). It includes work that connects alloy and feedstock engineering (including reused, recycled, and upcycled powder streams), processing and post-processing route design, accelerated characterisation (in-situ/operando and large-scale facilities), and mechanistic or data-driven modelling. Cont…
Physics-based and Data-driven Models for Additive Manufacturing
Deadline 2026-10-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Additive manufacturing (AM) has matured from rapid prototyping to the production of certified, high-value components. Yet, broader industrial adoption is still constrained by variability in part quality, rooted in the complexity of AM process physics: strongly coupled heat transfer, fluid flow, phase change, powder dynamics, and thermo-mechanical effects evolving across length and time scales. Physics-based modeling…
Advances in 3D Printing Technology for Energy Storage Applications
Deadline 2027-02-28Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
3D printing technology has opened a new era for manufacturing industries, revolutionizing the way of designing and creating complex structures. This Article Collection spotlights the groundbreaking research and advancements that adopt 3D printing techniques to enhance and innovate energy storage (ES) solutions. 3D printing exhibits great potential for precise control over the geometry, microstructure, and functional…
Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Microfluidic Devices: Design, Fabrication, and Integration
Deadline 2027-03-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Microfluidic devices have become foundational platforms for miniaturized biological analysis, chemical synthesis, and point-of-care diagnostics, driving transformative advances in biomedical engineering, life sciences, and precision medicine. Traditional fabrication techniques, such as soft lithography, are constrained by labor-intensive workflows, limited 3D structural capability, and poor customization, creating c…
Optimization and Recycling Strategies in 3D Printing of Composite Materials
Deadline 2027-03-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)
Journal: Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Additive manufacturing has transformed modern fabrication by enabling the layer wise construction of complex geometries directly from digital models. Among its most significant advancements is the integration of composite materials into 3D printing processes, allowing the combination of polymers, metals, ceramics, and continuous or short fiber reinforcements to produce components with enhanced mechanical, thermal, a…
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