Lightweight materials and structures have been extensively studied for a wide range of
applications in design and manufacturing of more environment-friendly and more …

Topology optimization was developed as an advanced structural design methodology to
generate innovative lightweight and high-performance configurations that are difficult to …

Inspired by natural porous architectures, numerous attempts have been made to generate
porous structures. Owing to the smooth surfaces, highly interconnected porous architectures …

Trauma-and disease-related skeletal defects and illnesses are plaguing millions of people
especially in an ageing globe. Recently, the convergence of additive manufacturing (AM) …

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has led to an evolution in the design and fabrication of
hard tissue substitutes, enabling personalized implants to address each patient's specific …

Nature‐inspired materials based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are very
attractive in many engineering disciplines because of their topology‐driven properties …

In nature, cellular materials exhibit enhanced multifunctionalities driven mainly by their
sophisticated topologies and length scales. These natural systems have inspired the …

Functionally graded materials (FGMs) represent a class of novel materials in which
compositions/constituents and/or microstructures gradually change along single or multiple …

Lattice structures are vital for biological applications because of its numerous benefits (for
example, faster and stronger binding to bone tissue). Consequently, processing of lattice …

Abstract Recently, additive manufacturing (AM), being part of IR4. 0, received great attention
for the fabrication of customized implants with outstanding quality, which are used in hard …