The rapid development of additive manufacturing has fueled a revolution in various research
fields and industrial applications. Among the myriad of advanced 3D printing techniques …

3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

The integration of nanotechnology into three‐dimensional printing (3DP) offers huge
potential and opportunities for the manufacturing of 3D engineered materials exhibiting …

Light-initiated polymerization processes are currently an important tool in various industrial
fields. The advancement of technology has resulted in the use of photopolymerization in …

Photoactivated materials have found widespread use in biological and medical applications
and are playing an increasingly important role in the nascent field of three-dimensional (3D) …

For a great variety of research fields extending from photonics to tissue engineering
applications, the requests for the construction of three-dimensional structures with high …

Chemical and physical processes driven by multiphoton absorption make possible the
fabrication of complex, 3D structures with feature sizes as small as 100 nm. Since its …

Direct writing (DW), also known as digital writing or digital printing, is a family of flexible multi-
length scale processes for the deposition of functional materials to form simple linear or …

Light-powered catalysis has found broad utility as a chemical transformation strategy, with
widespread impact on energy, environment, drug discovery and human health. A noteworthy …

This chapter attempts to give an overview of the historical development and current progress
of femtosecond laser micro-nanofabrication based on multiphoton absorption, and particular …