Nanotechnology-Based Additive Manufacturing - Product Design, Properties, and Applications

State-of-the-art overview of additive manufacturing techniques with an emphasis on processes, product designs and applications

This book offers a thorough overview of additive manufacturing technologies, including manufacturing requirements, product design, optimization of processes and product parameters to reduce manufacturing costs. It provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art review on various additive manufacturing technologies, their advantages, shortcomings, potential applications and future directions. Sample topics discussed by the three well-qualified editors on the topic of additive manufacturing include:

• Areas of application in the fields of electronics, aerospace, construction, automobile, sports and biomedicine
• Material considerations, the requirement of specific design, fabrication and processing methods
• Advantages and disadvantages of various 3D printing techniques for the res