Additive manufacturing (AM) refers to a collection of manufacturing methods involving the
incremental addition of material to build a part directly in its final or near-final geometry …

Honeycombs are ultra-light materials with outstanding mechanical properties, which mainly
originate from their unit cell configurations rather than the properties of matrix materials …

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

The automotive lightweighting trends, being driven by sustainability, cost, and performance,
that create the enormous demand for lightweight materials and design concepts, are …

Polymer-based materials are increasingly produced through fused deposition modelling
(FDM)–an additive manufacturing process, due to its intrinsic advantages in manufacturing …

It is widely known that the availability of lightweight structures with excellent energy
absorption capacity is essential for numerous engineering applications. Inspired by many …

Photothermal superhydrophobic surfaces are potential to become ideal anti‐/deicing
surfaces due to their rapid water removal, icing delay, and photothermal deicing …

Over the past few decades, there has been a constant pursuit for lightweight and high-
performance energy absorption structures and materials in automobiles, trains, ships …

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

This review article summarizes the current state-of-the-art for biomimicry in additive
manufacturing. Biomimicry is the practice of learning from and emulating nature-which can …