Additive Manufacturing Institute, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaAdditive manufacturing; 3D printing; High-performance materials; Integrated design and manufacturing
Professor (tenured) Zhangwei Chen is currently the Director of the Additive Manufacturing Institute at Shenzhen University. Prof. Chen holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College London (2014), with his PhD thesis awarded the prestigious John Kilner Prize. He has received the First Prize of Shenzhen Science and Technology Award and Second Prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Award. He is the Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) and Stanford 2% Global Top Scientists for the year 2021-2024. He has been working on the fields of materials processing, advanced manufacturing and characterizations etc. He has spent over 15 years particularly on the research of 3D printing of ceramics and the property-structure relationships. Prof. Chen is PI or Co-I of over 30 projects supported by NSFC, Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in various top academic journals. Some have been selected as front cover articles, feature articles and review articles. He has also actively engaged in the organization/chairing of national/international conferences. He is also a panel referee of funding agents in an international level, including European Commission, Canada EPSRC, Singapore A STAR Fund, New Zealand Marsden Fund, Switzerland, NSFC and so on. Prof. Chen works closely with domestic and overseas research institutes and industries related to 3D printing domains.
Ceramic materials have demonstrated immense potential in aerospace, energy, medical, and other fields due to their exceptional high-temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility. To foster academic exchange and advance research in this domain, this special issue on "Additive Manufacturing of High Performance Ceramics" invites high-quality original research and review articles from scholars worldwide. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Development of AM processes for novel ceramic materials, Multi-scale structural design and performance optimization in ceramic AM, Manufacturing and post-processing techniques for ceramic components in extreme environments, Machine learning-driven process-performance prediction and intelligent control, Innovative applications of ceramic AM in biomedicine, electronic devices, nuclear energy, and related fields.
Ceramic additive manufacturing via vat photopolymerization