As a result of their mechanical characteristics, biological structures often provide inspiration
for the development of high-performance mechanical structures. Nevertheless, traditional …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the significantly progressing field in terms of methods,
materials, and performance of fabricated parts. Periodical evaluation on the understanding …

Three-dimensional (3D) printing of silica glass is dominated by techniques that rely on
traditional particle sintering. At the nanoscale, this limits their adoption within microsystem …

Self-assembling colloidal particles in the cubic diamond crystal structure could potentially be
used to make materials with a photonic bandgap,–. Such materials are beneficial because …

High-throughput fabrication techniques for generating arbitrarily complex three-dimensional
structures with nanoscale features are desirable across a broad range of applications. Two …

With the advent of femtosecond lasers in the early 1990s, ultrafast laser processing has
proven to be an imperative tool for micro/nano machining. Two-photon lithography (TPL) is …

Processing of materials by ultrashort laser pulses has evolved significantly over the last
decade and is starting to reveal its scientific, technological and industrial potential. In …

A rapidly expanding area of research in materials science involves the development of
routes to complex 3D structures with feature sizes in the mesoscopic range (that is, between …

Bioprinting offers a highly-automated and advanced manufacturing platform that facilitates
the deposition of bio-inks (living cells, biomaterials and growth factors) in a scalable and …

Abstract In 1903, Alexander Graham Bell developed a design principle to generate
lightweight, mechanically robust lattice structures based on triangular cells; this has since …