Published Papers

Below is a list of published works citing Hyrel equipment.

The information for Unheated or Chilled Reservoir Printing, also known as Robocasting or DIW (Direct Ink Writing), SEP (Semisolid Extrusion Printing), SSE (Semisolid Extrusion). 3DCP (3D Concrete Printing), or DCC (Digital Concrete Construction), ran too long, and has been split off to the new Published Papers (DIW) page.

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724 total documents as of 4 June, 2026.

Non-Traditional Manufacturing

Including:

• 4D Printing
• Antennas, Sensors, Batteries, Inductors, and Circuits
• Electro-Spinning
• Electro-Melt-Spinning
• Engineered Living Materials (ELM)
• Melt Electro-Writing (MEW)
• Multiphase Direct Ink Writing (MDIW)
• Nanostructures
• Micro-Encapsulated Phase-Changing Materials (MEPCM)
• Plasma Treatments
• Printing with Embedded Fibers
• Shape Memory Polymers
• And combining two or more additive manufacturing methods in a single build.

NTM, 2026

• Extrusion-printed La_3-xTe₄ Legs With Interlocking Ni Electrode for High-temperature Thermoelectric Devices by a team from Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University and Thermoelectric and Electrochemical Systems and Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology
• Effect of CO2 Laser Treatment on Interfacial Properties of Quartz Fibre for 3D Printed Sandwich Composite by a team from Department of Fibres and Textile Processing Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai, Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), Girinagar, Advanced Laser Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), Girinagar, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur
• Printed Flexible High Density and High Frequency Connectors With Active Components Integration, a Master dissertation submitted to the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Lowell Campus
• Robotic Conformal 4D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver
• Rapid Prototyping of a Directly Heated Thermionic Triode Using 3D Printing Techniques, a Masters dissertation submitted to Carleton University, Ottawa
• AI-driven Quality Prediction in Additive Manufacturing Based on Multimodal Process Monitoring, a PhD dissertation submitted to the Stevens Institute of Technology

NTM, 2025

• Microwave-Induced Surface Activation of Aramid Waste for Additively Manufactured Composite Architectures of PETG by a team from the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), Ministry of Defence, Pune, India
• 3D Printing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites With Cyanate Ester Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Enhanced Thermo-Mechanical Properties by a team from Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso
• Additive Manufacturing of Morphing Structures With Multi-stimuli Activation Capabilities by a team from Boise State University and Drake University
• Encapsulating Laser-Induced Graphene to Preserve its Electrical Properties and Enhance its Mechanical Robustness by a team from Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto
• Intrinsically Soft Printed Electronics for Digitally Augmented Human Sensing and Vision by a team from Gonzaga University, Carnegie Mellon University. University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Georgia Institute of Technology
• Embeddable Multi-Material Wireless Micro-Sensors Utilizing Additive Manufacturing and Enhanced Microstructure a thesis submitted to Aerospace Engineering program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Surface Air Plasma Treatment of Laser-Induced Graphene-Based Electrodes for Enhanced Electrochemical Sensing Performance by a team from Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto
• Mechanics and odeling of 3D Printed Metamaterials for Energy Absorption, a thesis paper submitted to the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Toronto
• Advancing 3D-printed Hierarchical Porous Copper Electrodes: Enhancing Performance Through Post-sintering Parameters Optimization by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi
• Nb0.8Ti0.2FeSb via Ink Extrusion and Reaction-sintering of Elemental Powders for Half-heusler Thermoelectric Couples by a team from Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University
• Advanced Lithium Metal Battery: Enhancing Electrochemical Performance With 3D-printed Hierarchically Porous Copper Collectors by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
• Topological Optimization of Flexible Supercapacitor Electrodes through Modelling and Direct Ink 3D-Writing by a team from Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• Biomimetic 3D Prototyping of Hierarchically Porous Multilayered Membranes for Enhanced Oil–Water Filtration by a team from Materials Science and Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• De novo Autogenic Engineered Living Functional Materials by a team from Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston
• Thermal Characterization of Novel Electrodes and Modeling of Novel Characterization Methods for Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems, a PhD thesis submitted to Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department of UCLA
• Time Code for Multifunctional 3D Printhead Controls by a team from the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• RF Sensitive Sensors, Circuits, and Interconnects Using Additive Materials and Techniques by a team from Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowel and U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center

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NTM, 2024

• Microencapsulated Phase Change Material in 3D-printable Mortars by a team from Technical University of Denmark and University of Twente
• Development and Characterisation of 3D-Printed Multi-Material Thermistor by a team from the School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University
• Additively Manufactured Flexible Piezoelectric Wave-Based Multifunctional SensorMultifunctional Sensor, a Master's Thesis submitted to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Inkjet Printing of a Gate Insulator: Towards Fully Printable Organic Field Effect Transistor by a team from the School of Engineering Technology, Purdue University
• Extremely Stable, Multidirectional, All-in-One Piezoelectric Bending Sensor with Cycle up to Million Level by a team from several departments of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
• Hybrid 3D Printing of a Nature-Inspired Flexible Self-Adhesive Biopatch for Multi-Biosignal Sensing by a team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)'s Smart Advanced Memory devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, Mechanics of Composites for Energy and Mobility Lab, and Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division
• Engineering of Functional Hybrid Nanocomposites for Renewable Energy Applications via Laser Ablation, a doctoral dissertation submitted to The University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Multiscale 3d Printing via Active Nozzle Size and Shape Control by a team from the Department of civil and Systems engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• Versatile Patterning of Liquid Metal via Multiphase 3D Printing by a team from the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks (MSN), Ira Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
• Advancing Interactive Systems With Liquid Crystal Network-based Adaptive Electronics by a team from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• All-printed Multifunctional Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring of Inflatable Habitats by a team from Boise State University
• In-space Manufacturing of Morphing Electronics by a team from Boise State University
• ARJUNA: An Electrochemical Interface Mapping Probe for Solid-State Batteries by a team from Electrification & Energy Infrastructure Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Recent Advances in Implantable Sensors and Electronics Using Printable Materials for Advanced Healthcare by a team from Georgia Tech, Chungnam National University, University of Washington Tacoma, and Emory University School of Medicine
• Pediatric Formulations Developed by Extrusion-Based 3D Printing: From Past Discoveries to Future Prospects, results compiled by a team from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CRNF) and Delpharm, France
• 3D Printing Carbon-Carbon Composites With Multilayered Architecture for Enhanced Multifunctional Properties by a team from Arizona State University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CRNF), Texas A&M University, and University of Georgia
• Direct Ink Writing of Strained Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensors: Toward 4D Printable Soft Robotics by a team from SAMA Laboratories, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Electrical Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
• Liquid Crystal Elastomer Soft Robotic Arm for Pick-and-place Operation Controlled by Light by a team from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Development of Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing Systems for Embedded Electronics by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
• Direct Ink Writing of 4D Structural Colors by a team from Laboratory of Stimuli-Responsive Functional Materials and Devices (SFD), Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
• A Flexible and Electrically Conductive Liquid Metal Adhesive for Hybrid Electronic Integration by a team from Virginia Tech
• Low-Roughness 3D Printed Surfaces by Ironing for the Integration with Printed Electronics by a team from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto

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NTM, 2023

• Surface Oxide Removal in Preparation for Controlled Liquid Metal Embrittlement by a team from the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (EDRC)'s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and Geotechnical & Structures Laboratory
• Vitrimer Chemistry for 4D Printing Formulation by a team from Sahand University of Technology, Iran, Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
• Laser-Induced Graphene Electrodes for OrganicElectrochemical Transistors (OECTs) by a team from Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto
• 3D Printing-Enabled Design and Manufacturing Strategies for Batteries: A Review by a team partially from Arizona State University
• Permeable Skin Patch with Miniaturized Octopus-Like Suckers for Biosignal Monitoring by a team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
• Evaluation of Low-Loss Polymer Switches for Multinuclear MRI/S*by a team primarily from Texas A&M University (TAMU)
• Energy Harvesting Using High-Strength and Flexible 3D-Printed Cellulose/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheet Composites by a team from several departments of the Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• Competing Effects of Radio Frequency Fields on CarbonNanotube/Resin Systems: Alignment versus Heating by a team from several departments of Texas A&M University and from Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR)
• Enhancing Photoelectrochemical Performance of the Printed Nanoporous FeVO4 Photoanode by Dual-Layer CoOx–CoPi Catalysts by a team from Duy Tan University, Vietman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem , Israel, and City University of Hong Kong, China
• Sustainable Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Using 3D Printing with Chicken Bone Extract by a team from several departments of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), Kanpur
• Phase Change Materials Incorporation Into 3d Printed Geopolymer Cement: a Sustainable Approach to Enhance the Comfort and Energy Efficiency of Buildings by a team from the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Chemistry of the Technical University of Denmark and the Faculty of Engineering Technology, Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering (TFE), University of Twente, the Netherlands
• Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating by a team from Carnegie Mellon University
• Electrical Properties of Pvdf Films Fabricated by Direct Ink Writing by a team from Central South University, China
• Characteristic Analysis of Heterochiral TCP Muscle as a Extensile Actuator for Soft Robotics Applications by a team from the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Georgia Southern University
• 3D-Printed Elastomer Ternary Composites for Piezoelectric Energy Generation by a team from several departments of Tuskegee University
• Biomimetic Flexible Electronic Materials from Silk Fibroin-MXene Composites Developed via Mussel-Inspired Chemistry as Wearable Pressure Sensors by a team from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, and Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne
• Self-Assembly-Driven Bi2S3 Nanobelts Integrated a Silk-Fibroin-Based 3D-Printed Aerogel-Based Scaffold with a Dual-Network Structure for Photothermal Bone Cancer Therapy by a team from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, and the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)
• 3D Printing of Responsive Chiral Photonic Nanostructures by a team from Cornell University's Department of Food Science and University of South Carolina's Departments of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
• 3D Printed Dry Electrodes for Electrophysiological Signal Monitoring: A Review by a team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
• 3D Printing-Assisted Self-Assembly to Bio-Inspired Bouligand Nanostructures by a team from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
• Conductive and Elastic Bottlebrush Elastomers for Ultrasoft Electronics by a team from a team from a variety of departments of the University of Toronto
• Processes & Toolchain For Automation Of Hybrid Direct-Write 3D Printing, a PhD thesis submitted to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso

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NTM, 2022

• 4D Printing of Extrudable and Degradable Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Microgel Scaffolds for Multidimensional Cell Culture by a team from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the BioFrontiers Institute of the University of Colorado - Boulder and the Medical Scientist Training Program, School of Medicine, University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus
• Structured 3D Printed Dry ECG Electrodes Using Copper Based Filament by a team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Yachay Tech Universiy, and King Abdulaziz University
• Extrusion-Based 3D Printing of Stretchable Electronic Coating for Condition Monitoring of Suction Cups by a team from the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Ferroélectricité, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Université de Lyon and the Hybria Institute of Business and Technologies
• Enhancing Stability of High-Nickel Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries through Additive Manufacturing of Cathode StructureBatteries through Additive Manufacturing an Honors Thesis submitted to the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Arkansas
• Additively Manufactured Unimorph Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Ferroelectric Particles for Enhanced Low-Voltage Actuation by a team from the Aerospace Engineering Department of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univeristy
• Innovation in Additive Manufacturing Using Polymers: A Survey on the Technological and Material Developments, a review of "the most recent advances from technological and physico-chemical perspectives to improve several remaining issues in polymeric materials’ additive manufacturing", by a team from Universidad San Sebastián, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, and Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Chile

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NTM, 2021

• 4D-Actuators by 3D-Printing Combined with Water-based Curing by a team from Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
• 4D Printing of Engineered Living Materials by a team from several departments at [https://www.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M University
• Design and Development of Soft Earthworm Robot Driven by Fibrous Artificial Muscles a thesis presented to Georgia Southern University
• Comprehensive Review on Design and Manufacturing of Bio-scaffolds for Bone Reconstruction by a team from School of Mechanical Engineering Vellore Institute of Technology, India
• Printed Electronic Devices with Inks of TiS3 Quasi-One-Dimensional van der Waals Material by a team from University of California, Riverside and University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• 3D Printing of Thermo-Sensitive Drugs by a team from the University of South Australia and Addis Ababa University
• Printable Elastomeric Electrodes with Sweat-Enhanced Conductivity for Wearables by a team from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University and the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University
• Optimal Soft Composites for Under-Actuated Soft Robots by a team from The Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Review of Low-Cost 3D Bioprinters: State of the Market and Observed Future Trends
• 3D Printing of Electrically Responsive PVC Gel Actuatorsby a team from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments of The University of California, San Diego
• 4D Printing with Bio-based Polymers for Adaptive Wearable Devices, submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design Innovation
• Automated Fiber Embedding for Soft Mechatronic Components by a team from the Manufacturing and Design Centre of the Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Silicone/Epoxy Hybrid Resins with Tunable Mechanical and Interfacial Properties for Additive Manufacture of Soft Robots by a team from the Manufacturing and Design Centre and the Engineering Product Development Pillar of the Singapore University of Technology and Design
• 3D-Printed Triboelectric Nanogenerators: State of the Art,Applications, and Challenges by a team from the engineering schools of Deakin University, The University of Melbourne, UCLA, and Georgia Tech
• Enhanced Wettability in Ultrasonic-Assisted Soldering to Glass Substrates, by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University

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NTM, 2020

• 4D Printing of Shape-memory Polymeric Scaffolds for Adaptive Biomedical Implantation by a team from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Department of Surgery, the Food Science Program, Division of Food Systems & Bioengineering, and the Department of Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering of the University of Missouri
• Morphing Circuit: An Integrated Design, Simulation, and Fabrication Workflow for Self-morphing Electronics by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and Zhejiang University, China
• An Integrated Manifold Learning Approach for High Dimensional Data Feature Extractions and its Applications to Online Process Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing by a team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Virginia Tech, and Oklahoma Stata University, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research
• Additive Manufacturing Techniques for Smart Prosthetic Liners by a team from several departments of the University College London in cooperation with the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK
• Guideline for Paste Extrusion 3D Printing of Slump-Free Ferrite Inductor Cores by a team from Virginia Tech's Materials Science and Engineering Department, Center for Power Electronics Systems, and Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Reliability Assessment of Magnetic Cores and 3D-printed Constant-flux Inductors by a team from Virginia Tech and Texas Instruments
• Z-Meandering Miniaturized Patch Antenna Using Additive Manufacturing by a team from Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Wetting Analysis of the Ultrasonic-Assisted Soldering Process, a thesis submitted to The Mechanical Engineering Department of Clemson University
• Solid Dosage Form Production, a patent application by a team from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Central Lancashire
• Flexible Fiber Interconnects For Soft Mechatronics by a team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

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NTM, 2019

• UHF RFID-based Additively Manufactured Passive Wireless Sensor for Detecting Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Impacts by a team from Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Bi-Layered Polymer Carriers with Surface Modification by Electrospinning for Potential Wound Care Applications by the Institute of Pharmacy, University of Tartu, Estonia and the Pharmeceutical Sciences laboratory at Abo Akademi University, Finland
• Additive Manufacturing of Spiral Windings for a Pot-core Constant-flux Inductor by a team from the Material Science & Engineering Department of Virginia Tech
• Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Aerospace Applications by NASA
• Isolation, Characterization, and Agent-Based Modeling of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Bio-construct for Myocardial Regeneration Scaffold Design by a team from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente de Cali - Colombia and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland

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NTM, 2018

• 3D‐Printed Gastric Resident Electronics by a team from The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
• 3D Printed Capsules for Quantitative Regional Absorption Studies in the GI Tract by a team from Merck Pharmaceuticals
• Fused Deposition Modelling: Advances in Engineering and Medicine in 3D Printing of Pharmaceuticals
• Block Copolymer Ink Formulation for 3D Printing and Method of Making a 3D Printed Radiofrequency (RF) Device by a team from the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University
• Hybrid Processes in Additive Manufacturing by a team primarily from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
• Additive Manufacturing- A Review of 4D Printing and Future Applications by a team from The European Space Research and Technology Center
• Molecularly-Engineered, 4D-Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators by a team from the Bioengineering Department of University of Texas, Dallas

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NTM, 2017

• Additive Manufacturing of Toroid Inductor for Electronics Applications by Chao Ding, Virginia Tech
• Self-Actuating 3D Printed Packaging for Deployable Antennas, by a team from Georgia Tech
• A Preliminary Study of Conductive Filaments Printed Via Fused Filament Fabrication by Smruti Ranjan Sahoo at Rochester Institute of Technology
• Review of Batteryless Wireless Sensors Using Additively Manufactured Microwave Resonators in Sensors, a Journal of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
• 4D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers by a team from the Bioengineering Department of the University of Texas, Dallas

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NTM, 2016

• Additive Manufacturing of Planar Inductor for Power Electronics Applications by a team from Virginia Tech
• A Low-Cost, Single Platform, Hybrid Manufacturing System for RF Passives, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE)
• Nano-Material Based Flexible Radio Frequency Sensors for Wearable Health and Environment Monitoring: Designs and Prototypes Utilizing 3D/Inkjet Printing Technologies, A Dissertation Presented to The Academic Faculty of The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech
• A Novel Approach to Integrating 3D/4D Printing and Stretchable Conductive Adhesive Technologies for High Frequency Packaging Applications by a team from Georgia Tech

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NTM, 2015

• Infill Dependent 3D-Printed Material Based on NinjaFlex Filament for Antenna Applications, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE)
• A Novel Strain Sensor Based on 3D Printing Technology and 3D Antenna Design, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE)
• A Novel 3-D Printed Loop Antenna Using Flexible NinjaFlex Material for Wearable and IoT Applications, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE)
• Button-Shaped RFID Tag Combining Three-Dimensional and Inkjet Printing Technologies, The IET Digital Library.
• Demonstration and Characterization of Fully 3D-printed RF Structures, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE)
• RF Characterization of 3D Printed Flexible Materials - NinjaFlex Filaments, The European Microwave Association (EuMA)

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Unheated or Chilled Reservoir Printing

Also known as Robocasting or DIW (Direct Ink Writing), SEP (Semisolid Extrusion Printing), SSE (Semisolid Extrusion). 3DCP (3D Concrete Printing), or DCC (Digital Concrete Construction).

This info ran too long, and has been split off to the new Published Papers (DIW) page.

Heated Reservoir Printing

Also known as DPE (Direct Powder Extrusion) or HME (Hot Melt Extrusion).

DPE/HME 2026

• Utilizing Enzymatic Degradation and Phase Separation to Generate Micro/Nano-scale Mass Transport Networks in Organic Binder Systems for Ceramic Green Bodies, a Master dissertation submitted to the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Lowell Campus
• 4D Printing of Fast-responsive Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for Light-driven Actuators by a team from University of Florence, National Institute of Optics, National Research Council (INO-CNR), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, and European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
• Advancing Aerospace Materials: 3D Printing of Fiber Reinforced Cyanate Ester Ipns and Uhtcmcs, a thesis submitted to University of Texas at El Paso

DPE/HME 2025

• Composite Pcl-Chitosan Scaffolds With Dual Porosity Fabricated via Additive Manufacturing Technique for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Purposes by a team from Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, and Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, Tehran
• Smart Materials Based on Azo Dyes: From Light-responsive Adhesives to Artificial Muscles a PhD thesis submitted to FLORE (FLOrence REsearch), Florence
• High Molecular Weight Biobased Long-Chain Aliphatic Polyesters with Degradability: Insights into Mimicking Polyethylene by a team from Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Development of 3D-printed PCL Scaffolds Enriched With Hyaluronic Acid and Gallic Acid for Wound Dressing by a team from Marmara University's Center for Nanotechnology & Biomaterials Application and Research, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials (IRCBM), COMSATS University, Lahore Campus, Islamabad
• Optimizing Different Methods of Fabricating 3D Printed UV Blocking Sheets for Solar Cells by a team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), and University of Jeddah (UJ)
• Coaxial Direct Ink Writing of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers in 3D Architectures by a team from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Wyss, Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Direct Ink Writing Of Piezoresistive Isoprene Rubber Nanocomposites by a team from Texas State University

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DPE/HME 2024

• Reprocessable and Mechanically Tailored Soft Architectures Through 3D Printing of Elastomeric Block Copolymers by a team from Princeton University's departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• 3D Printing of Thermally Responsive Shape Memory Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks by a team from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Thermal Weathering of 3D-Printed Lunar Regolith Simulant Composites by a team from Jacobs Space Exploration Group, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and from several departments of Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH)
• 3D Printing of Cyanate Ester Resins With Interpenetration Networks for Enhanced Thermal and Mechanical Properties by a team from the University of Texas at El Paso
• Bio-Inspired 3D Printing of Layered Structures Utilizing Stabilized Amorphous Calcium Carbonate within Biodegradable Matrices by a team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology
• 3D Printing Direct Powder Extrusion in the Production of Drug Delivery Systems: State of the Art and Future Perspectives by the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Sevilla
• Pediatric Formulations Developed by Extrusion-Based 3D Printing: From Past Discoveries to Future Prospects by a team from CNRS, INSERM, Chemical and Biological Technologies for Health Group (UTCBS), Université Paris Cité and Delpharm Reims,
• Bio-inspired 3D-printing of Layered Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Composites by a team from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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DPE/HME 2023

• Combination Techniques Towards Novel Drug Delivery Systems Manufacturing: 3D PCL Scaffolds Enriched With Tetracycline-loaded PVP Nanoparticles by a team from Marmara University, Turkey
• Fully Recyclable Cured Polymers for Sustainable 3D Printing by a team from the Department of Polymer Materials Engineering, Pernick Faculty of Engineering, Shenkar College, Israel and the Institute of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Three-Dimensional Printing Parameter Optimization for Salmon Gelatin Gels Using Artificial Neural Networks and Response Surface Methodology: Influence on Physicochemical and Digestibility Properties by a team from Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta,, Department of Food Science and Chemical Technology, Universidad de Chile,, and the Department of Food Engineering and the Department of Basic Sciences, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile
• Production of Essential Oil Coated Polycapralactone Scaffold With Antibacterial Properties by an author from Marmara University, Istanbul
• Geometry, Mechanics and Actuation of Intrinsically Curved Folds by a team from Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• Fabrication of Avian Eggshell Membrane Derived Dispersed Collagen Hydrogels for Potential Bone Regeneration by a team from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Toward Fully Printed Soft Actuators: UV-Assisted Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Biphasic Liquid Metal Conductors by a team from the Institute of Systems and Robotics Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Coimbra
• Controlled Directionality in 3D Printing of Graphite-Reinforced Polymer Composite with Enhanced Mechanical Properties by a team from the Indian Institute of Technology's Kharagpur and Gandhinagar campuses, and the Carbon Science Centre of Excellence, Morgan Advanced Materials, Penn State University
• 3D Printed Hierarchical Porous Poly(ε-caprolactone) Scaffolds from Pickering High Internal Phase Emulsion Templating by a team from the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Do we need perfect mixing between fuel and oxidizer to maximize the energy release rate of energetic nanocomposites? by a team from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

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DPE/HME 2022

• 3D Printing of Liquid Metal Embedded Elastomers for Soft Thermal and Electrical Materials by a team from Carnegie Mellon University's Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Departments; the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University
• Robotic Pick-and-Place Operations in Multifunctional Liquid Crystal Elastomers by a team from Eindhoven University of Technology's Institute for Complex Molecular Systems and Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA)Departamento de Física de la Materia CondensadaCSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, the CIBER in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, and the [ SCNU-TUE Joint Lab of Device Integrated Responsive Materials (DIRM), National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Normal University]
• Development of Embeddable Additive Manufacturing Microsensors for Structural Health Monitoring, by a team from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Continuous, Non-Destructive Detection of Surface Bacterial Growth with Bioinspired Vascularized PolymersGrowth with Bioinspired Vascularized Polymers, submitted to the University of Maine in pursuit of a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering
• A Novel Dynamic Polymer Synthesis via Chlorinated Solvent Quenched Depolymerization by a team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Chemical Services Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences; University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Beijing University of Chemical Technology
• Alginate–Sodium Sulfate Decahydrate Phase Change Composite with Extended Stability by a team from Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Building and Transportation Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Continuous, Non-Destructive Detection of Microorganism Growth at Buried Interfaces with Vascularized Polymers by a team from the Biomedical Science and Engineering, University of Maine, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Duke University, and the [Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago https://pme.uchicago.edu/]
• Comparing the Cpabilities of Vibration-Assisted Printing (VAP) and Direct-Write Additive Manufacturing Techniques by a team from Purdue University and Naval Postgraduate School
• Characterization of Micro-Sandwich Structures via Direct Ink Writing Epoxy Based Cores by a team from various engineering departments at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Emulsion Templated Porous Funnel from Polypropylene Waste for Efficient Oil Separation and Spillage Management by a team from the Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi
• Material Synthesis and Machine Learning for Additive ManufacturingManufacturing, a Master's Thesis submitted to the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
• Material Synthesis and Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics, a Master's Thesis submitted to the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
• Cholesteric Liquid Crystals in Additive Manufacturing, a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Laboratory of Stimuli-Responsive Functional Materials and Devices (SFD), Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
• Development of Advanced 3D-Printed Solid Dosage Pediatric Formulations for HIV Treatment by a team from Trinity College Dublin, Complutense University of Madrid, and King Abdulaziz University
• An Additive Manufacturing-based 3D Printed Poly ɛ-CaproLactone (PCL) / Alginate Sulfate / Cxtracellular Matrix Construct for Nasal Cartilage Regeneration, by a team from Texas A&M International University, Iran University of Medical Sciences, and the University of Tehran

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DPE/HME 2021

• Effects of Crosslinking on the Physical Solid-State and Dissolution Properties of 3D-printed Theophylline Tablets by a team from the Institute of Pharmacy and the Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine of the University of Tartu and from the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki
• Understanding Direct Powder Extrusion for Fabrication of 3D Printed Personalised Medicines: A Case Study for Nifedipine Minitablets, a study by a team from the Department of Pharmaceutics and Food Science, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,and the Biomaterials, Bio-Engineering and Nanomedicine (BioN) Lab, Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth
• Printable Elastomeric Electrodes with Sweat‑Enhanced Conductivity for Wearables by a team primarily from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Fabrication and Testing of Advanced Composites for Extreme Environments, a Master's dissertation submitted to the Mechanical Engineering Department of Texas A&M University
• Wound Healing: From Passive to Smart Dressings by a team from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehra and UQ Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland
• 3D Printing of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Based Piezoelectric Nanocomposites: An Overview by a tea, from Eskişehir Technical University, Turkey
• 3D Printing Compositesfrom Raw Materials, a Master Thesis submitted to Lund University
• Soft Elasticity Optimises Dissipation in 3D-Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomers by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Denver, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Materials and Failure Modeling Department, Sandia National Laboratories, and Impressio, Inc.
• 3D-Printed Enzyme-Embedded Plastics by a team from Scion, a Crown Research Institute in New Zealand

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DPE/HME 2020

• Study of Recyclable and Repairable Dynamic Covalent Polymers for Sustainable 3D Printing Development for Sustainable 3D Printing Development, a thesis for a PhD in Mechanical and Materials Engineering submitted to The University of Western Ontario
• Toward Multifunctional Liquid Metal Composites, a video by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Controlled Assembly of Liquid Metal Inclusions as a General Approach for Multifunctional Composites by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Syngas to Higher Alcohols Synthesis over 3D Printed KMoCo/ZSM5 Monolith by a team from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) of The University of Queensland
• Extrusion 3D Printing of Porous Silicone Architectures for Engineering Human Cardiomyocyte-Infused Patches Mimicking Adult Heart Stiffness by a team from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of Florida International University
• Temperature and Solvent Facilitated Extrusion Based 3D Printing for Pharmaceuticals by a team from School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire
• 3D Printed Food and Customized Silicone Molds: Investigating Aesthetic Appearance and Food Preparing Methods for a Dysphagia Diet, a Master's paper submitted to the Mechanical Engineering Department of Halmstad University of Sweden
• Inkjet-Printed Iontronics for Transparent, Elastic, andStrain-Insensitive Touch Sensing Matrix by a team from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological Univeristy and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposite Biomaterials improved by extrusion during Direct Ink Writing by a team from the Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory of the Systems Design Engineering School at the University of Waterloo, Canada

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DPE/HME 2019

• Vascularized Polymers Spatially Control Bacterial Cells on Surfaces by a team from the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine
• Dynamically Crystalizing Liquid‐Crystal Elastomers for an Expandable Endplate‐Conforming Interbody Fusion Cage by a team from the College of Engineering, Design and Computing, University of Colorado Denver
• Development of an Open-Sourced Automated Ultrasonic-Assisted Soldering System, by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Clemson University
• Acoustic Analysis of Ultrasonic Assisted Soldering for Enhanced Adhesion, by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Clemson University
• Preparation and Applications of Stimuli-Responsive Composite Materials, a PhD dissertation from the Case Western Reserve University Department of Chemistry.
• In-operando High-speed Microscopy and Thermometry of Reaction Propagation and Sintering in a Nanocomposite by a team from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
• Comparison study of the ignition and combustion characteristics of directly-written Al/PVDF, Al/Viton and Al/THV composites by a team from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland
• A Proof of Concept for 3D Printing of Solid Lipid-Based Formulations of Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs to Control Formulation Dispersion Kinetics by a team including the University College London School of Pharmacy
• Architecture can Significantly Alter the Energy Release Rate from Nanocomposite Energetics by a team from University of Maryland's Dept. of Physics
• Comparative Characterization of the Hydrogel Added PLA/β-TCP Scaffolds Produced by 3D Bioprinting by a team from Marmara University, Turkey
• 3D Printing of Thermoreversible Polyurethanes with Targeted Shape Memory and Precise In-Situ Self-Healing Properties by Yue Zhang, Xiangyu Yin, Mingyue Zheng, Carolyn Moorlag, Jun Yang and Zhonglin Wang.
• Additive Processing of Fluoroelastomers, a patent application by a team from 3M
• Additive Processing of Fluoropolymers, a patent application by a team from 3M

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DPE/HME 2018

• 3D Printing of Surgical Hernia Meshes Impregnated with Contrast Agents: In Vitro Proof of Concept with Imaging Characteristics on Computed Tomography by a team from Washington University in St. Louis
• Composites of Fatty Acids and Ceramic Powders are Versatile Biomaterials for Personalized Implants and Controlled Release of Pharmaceuticals by a team from The University of Southern Denmark
• Extrusion-Based 3D Printing of Poly (ethylene glycol) Diacrylate Hydrogels Containing Positively and Negatively Charged Groups by a team from the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute, in Stuttgart, Germany
• Nanoengineered Colloidal Inks for 3D Bioprinting in The American Chemical Society's Langmuir

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DPE/HME 2017

• Shear-Thinning and Thermo-Reversible Nanoengineered Inks for 3D Bioprinting in the American Chemical Society's Applied Materials & Interfaces Journal
• Influence of Shear Thinning and Material Flow on Robotic Dispensing of PEG in The American Chemical Society's ACS Nano

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Filament Printing

Also known as FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) or FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication).

FDM/FFF, 2026

• Gradient-Stiffness Star-Shaped Auxetic Metamaterial for High-Energy Absorption by a team from Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• In Situ Cold Plasma-enhanced Polymer Additive Manufacturing by a team from Toronto Smart Materials and Structures, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto and Division of Emerging Technologies, National Research Council Canada
• A Framework for Distributed Additive Manufacturing, a PhD dissertation submitted to New Mexico State University

FDM/FFF, 2025

• Optimizing Interlayer Adhesion of FFF-printed PEEK on an Accessible Platform via Short-beam Shear Testing and Response Surface Methodology, by a team from Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada and Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán (CICY)
• An Experimental Investigation of Hybrid Fused Filament Fabrication With in-process Machining by a team from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Fused Filament Fabrication of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composites With Microencapsulated Phase-change Material by a team from Building Technologies and Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Evaluating Mechanical Integrity of 3D-Printed PLA and ABS by Varying Process Parameters by a team from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tuskegee University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tuskegee University and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Adama Science & Technology University, Ethiopia
• Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of FFF- Printed Porous Peek: Effects of Key Process Parameters by a team from CIMAV-Subsede Monterrey and other organizations.
• A Study on 3D Printing Process to Optimize the Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of PLA, ABS, and Carbon Fiber/ PEEK Composite, a thesis submitted to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tuskegee University
• Emulsion Templated Porous Funnel From Polypropylene Waste for Efficient Oil Separation and Spillage Management by a team from IIT Delhi
• Additive Manufacturing of Stainless Steel 316L by Fused Deposition Modeling by a team from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
• Dry Sliding Wear Behaviour of 3D Printed Polyetheretherketone With Varying Layer Thickness by a team from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• Effect of Printing Parameters on Mechanical Properties and Warpage of 3D-Printed PEEK/CF-PEEK Composites Using Multi-Objective Optimization Technique by a team from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India and Department of Mechanical Engineering, BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Karnataka, India
• Observations and Origin of Interfacial Heterogeneities in High-Performance Engineering Thermoplastics During Additive Manufacturing via Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction by a team from Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, UES, Dayton, Ohio, and Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University

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FDM/FFF, 2024

• Design Optimization and Finite Element Analysis of 3D Printed Drug Delivery Systems by a team from the Digital Manufacturing and Materials Characterization Laboratory, School of Science and Technology, International Hellenic University
• Development of a Novel, All‐Aromatic High Tensile Modulus Liquid Crystalline Polyimide for Fused Filament Fabrication Applications by a team from Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Department of Texas A&M University, and BlueHalo LLC
• Mechanical and Surface Characterisation of Additively Manufactured Polyetheretherketone for the Tribo Test by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• Effect of the Infill Percentage of 3D Printed Polyetheretherketone Under the Dry Sliding Condition by a team from Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• Fine-tuning of Core–shell 1D Nanoparticles for Thermally Conductive, Yet Electrically Insulating, 3D-printable Polymer Nanocomposites by a team from CEA Liten, France
• Novel Production Strategy of Drug-encapsulated Biodegradable Scaffolds for Remediation of Hidradenitis Suppurativa by a team from Institute of Biotechnology, Gebze Technical University, Turkey, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and multiple departments of both University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Marmara University, Turkey
• 3D-printed Polylactic Acid (Pla)/polymethyl Silsesquioxane (Pmsq)-based Scaffolds Coated With Vitamin E Microparticles for the Application of Wound Healing by a team from Marmara University, Turkey, Üsküdar University, Turkey, Health Institutes of Türkiye (TUSEB), Turkey, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey, and Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey
• Programmable Cell Unit Arrangement of 3D Printing Mechanical Metamaterial Undergoing Tailorable Local Instability by a team from Harbin University of Science and Technology

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FDM/FFF, 2023

• Highly Loaded Carbon Fiber Filaments for 3d-printed Composites by a team from the University of Georgia and Arizona State University
• Highly loaded carbon fiber filaments for 3D-printed composites by a team from the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering (ECAM), College of Engineering, University of Georgia and the Manufacturing Engineering, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks (MSN), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
• 3D Printable Spatial Fractal Structures Undergoing Auxetic Elasticity by a team from Harbin Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, City University of Hong Kong, and Northumbria University
• The Effect of Porosity on Flexoelectricity in 3d Printed Aluminum/polyvinylidene Fluoride Composite by a team from Purdue University
• Effect of Input Variables on the Mechanical Properties of Additively Manufactured PEEK Thermoplastics by a team from Department of Mechanical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Institut Clément Ader, UMR CNRS 5312, University of Toulouse, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Innovations Institute in Ecomaterials, Ecoproducts and Ecoenergy (I2E3), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
• A Novel Feature Representation Method Based on Similarity Between Statistical Distributions of Acoustic Emission Waveforms by a team from College of Logistics Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China and College of Mechanical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
• Process Monitoring and Control of Advanced Manufacturing based on Physics-Assisted Machine Learning, a dissertation submitted to the Industrial and Systems Engineering department of Virginia Tech
• Multimodal Origami Shape Memory Metamaterials Undergoing Compression-twist Coupling by a team from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and Northumbria University, UK
• Process Parameter Optimization for Reproducible Fabrication of Layer Porosity Quality of 3D-Printed Tissue Scaffold by a team from several departments at Virginia Tech
• Fundamentals of Crystalline Evolution and Properties of Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Polyether Ether Ketone Nanocomposites in Fused Filament Fabrication by a team from several departments at Texas A&M University
• Printed Planar Microwave Connector with Multiple Signal Lines by a team from Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Structured 3D Printed Dry ECG Electrodes Using Copper Based Filament by a team from the Computer Electrical Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
• 3D Printed Dry Electrodes for Electrophysiological Signal Monitoring: A Review by a team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

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FDM/FFF, 2022

• A Comparison Between Large-format 3d Printing and Conventional Fused Filament Fabrication by a team from Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Columbia
• Imbalanced Data Classification via Generative Adversarial Network with Application to Anomaly Detection in Additive Manufacturing Process by a team from the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Reinforcement Learning-based Defect Mitigation for Quality Assurance of Additive Manufacturing by a team from the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Fabrication of Polycarbonate Filaments Infused with Carbon from Coconut Shell Powder for 3D Printing Applications by a team from Tuskegee University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
• Smart Quality Assurance System for Additive Manufacturing using Data-driven based Parameter-Signature-Quality Framework, a dissertation submitted to Virginia Tech's Industrial and Systems Engineering department
• Tunable Hyperbolic Out-Of-Plane Deformation of 3D-Printed Auxetic PLA Shape Memory Arrays by a team from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Closed-loop Additive Manufacturing of Upcycled Commodity Plastic through Dynamic Cross-linking by a team from the Chemical Sciences Division and Materials Sciences and Technology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Effective Reinforcement of Engineered Sustainable Biochar carbon for 3D Printed Polypropylene Biocomposites by a team from Tuskegee Univeristy
• Nonparametric Bayesian Framework for Material and Process Optimization with Nanocomposite Fused Filament Fabrication by a team from the departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Chemical Engineering of Auburn University
• Paliperidone Palmitate as Model of Heat-Sensitive Drug for Long-Acting 3D Printing Application by a team from the Laboratory of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics and the Laboratory of Polymer and Soft Matter Dynamics of the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials (LPCM), Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP), University of Mons
• Effect of infill on resulting mechanical properties of additive manufactured bioresorbable polymers for medical devices by a team from Poly-Med, Inc. and Clemson University
• Surface Design of 3D-printed PEEK by Controlling Slicing Parameters in the International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research

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FDM/FFF, 2021

• Effective Reinforcement of Engineered Sustainable Biochar Carbon for 3D Printed Polypropylene Biocomposites from a team from Tuskegee University
• Fabrication and Characterization of Polycarbonate-Silica Filaments for 3D Printing Applications by a team from Tuskegee University
• Sequentially Tunable Buckling in 3D Printing Auxetic Metamaterial Undergoing Twofold Viscoelastic Resonances, by a team from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, and School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Synthesis and Characterization of Functiona Materials for 3D Printed Composites, a Master's thesis submitted to the Mechanical Engineering Department of Texas A&M University
• Novel Architected Material for Cardiac Patches by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Boron Nitride Nanotubes for Heat Dissipation in Polycaprolactone Composite by a team from Department of Chemistry, Duke University and Université Grenoble Alpes
• 3D Printing of Supramolecular Polymer Hydrogels with Hierarchical Structure by a team from Northwestern University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Simpson Querrey Institute and the Soft Materials Branch of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

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FDM/FFF, 2020

• Physics Based Compressive Sensing for Additive Manufacturing Process Monitoring a PhD dissertation presented to the Mechanical Engineering School at Georgia Tech.
• Preparation and Characterization of Hot-Melt Extruded Polycaprolactone-Based Filaments Intended for 3D-Printing of Tablets by a team from the Institute of Pharmacy, Department of Immunology, and the Department of Geology of the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the School of Pharmacy of the University of Eastern Finland
• Shape Programming by Modulating Actuation over Hierarchical Length Scales by a team from the Higher School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of the City of Paris\, the Paris Sciences and Letters University, the Sorbonne University, the International School of Advanced Studies (Italy), and the the BioRobotics Institute of the International School of Advanced Studies of the University of Sant'Anna (Italy)
• Considering Lithium-ion Battery 3D-printing via Thermoplastic Material Extrusion and Polymer Powder Bed Fusion by a team from Laboratoire de Réactivité et de Chimie des Solides, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Laboratoire des Technologies Innovantes, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, RS2E, Réseau Français sur le Stockage Électrochimique de l’Énergie, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Youngstown State University, Université Lille Nord de France, GEMTEX | Textile Research Laboratory, and Plateforme de Microscopie Électronique (PME) de l'Université de Picardie Jules Verne

• Additive Manufacturing Using Melt Extruded Thermoplastics for Tissue Engineering, part of the textbook Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering - Methods and Protocols by a team from Maastricht University's Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine and Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials
• Fused Filament Fabrication of PEEK: A Review of Process-Structure-Property Relationships by a team from The European Space Research and Technology Center
• Current and Future Applications of 3D Printing Using Custom-Made Materials Made Materials an honors thesis paper from the Chemistry Department of the University of South Dakota
• Current Understanding and Challenges in High-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Engineering Thermoplastic Polymers by a team from the Macromolecules Innovation Institute at Virginia Tech
• Production of 3D-Printed Tympanic Membrane Scaffolds as a Tissue Engineering Application by a multi-disciplinary, multi-university team from Istanbul, Turkey
• A poly(lactic acid)-based Ink for Biodegradable Printed Electronics with Conductivity Enhanced through Solvent Aging by the Materials Science & Engineering Program of the Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder
• Advanced 3D-Printed ElectroActive Polymer (EAP) Actuator Applied to High Precision Large Optical-Quality Surface Fabrication: First Results, a presentation in Proceedings Volume 11375 of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXII
• Exploring Attacks and Defenses in Additive Manufacturing Processes: Implications in Cyber-Physical Security, a Master of Science thesis paper presented to the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
• 3D Printing by Fused Deposition Modeling of Single- and Multi-Compartment Hollow Systems for Oral Delivery - A Review by a team from Sezione di Tecnologia e Legislazione Farmaceutiche “Maria Edvige Sangalli”, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano
• Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Ultraperformance Polymers to use as Thermal Protection Systems for Spacecraft by a team from Centre for Additive Manufacturing, School of Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
• 3D Printing of Recycled PET Polymer Composite Infused with Sustainable Carbon by a team from the Materials Science & Engineering Department of Tuskegee University

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FDM/FFF, 2019

• Bioresorbable Composite Stents for Enhanced Response of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells by H. Mozafari from The Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• The Impact of 3D Printing Process Parameters on the Dielectric Properties of High Permittivity Composites by a team from Loughborough University
• Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Material Systems for Aerospace Applications by a team from NASA's Glenn Research Center
• Material Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Polypropylene: A Review on How to Improve Dimensional Inaccuracy and Warpage, in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science
• Magnetic 3D Printing of Hexaferrite Material, a PhD dissertation from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
• Prediction and Experimental Validation of Part Thermal Historyin Fused Filament Fabrication Additive Manufacturing Process by a team from SUNY Buffalo's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Materials Design and Innovation, and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
• Gastric Residence Systems for Sustained Delivery of Adamantane-class Drugs by a team from Lyndra Theraputics
• Gastric Resident Electronics a patent application by a team from the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Smart Additive Manufacturing Using Advanced Data Analytics and Closed Loop Control, A Dissertation Presented to The Academic Faculty of the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Virginia Tech
• The Advent of a Novel Manufacturing Technology in Pharmaceutics: Superiority of Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printer by a team from the College of Pharmacy and the Yonsei Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Yonsei University
• On the thermal processing and mechanical properties of 3D-printed polyether ether ketone (PEEK) by a team from the Department of Macromolecular Sciences & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering and the Key Laboratory of E&M, Zhejiang University of Technology
• Composites based on metallic particles and tuned filling factor for 3D-printing by Fused Deposition Modeling by a team from IMDEA Nanociencia in Madrid
• 3D printing of Auxetic Metamaterials with Digitally Reprogrammable Shape by a team from the Georgia Tech School of Mechanical Engineering
• Automated Fiber Embedding for Tailoring Mechanical and Functional Properties of Soft Robot Components by the Singapore University of Technology and Design's (SUTD) DManD (Digitial Manufacturing and Design) Center
• Image Analysis-Based Closed Loop Quality Control for Additive Manufacturing with Fused Filament Fabrication by a team from the Virginia Tech Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Reprocessable 3D-Printed Conductive Elastomeric Composite Foams for Strain and Gas Sensing by a team from the Chemistry and Macromolecular Science & Engineering Departments of Case Western Reserve University
• Chapter 7 - Additive Manufacturing of Polyaryletherketones in the PEEK Biomaterials Handbook
• Fast Scanning Calorimetry for Semicrystalline Polymers in Fused Deposition Modeling by a team from The Materials Science and Engineering School of Georgia Tech

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FDM/FFF, 2018

• Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Bioplastics by innovative 3D Printing Approaches, a Masters Thesis by Kathryn Hall from the University of North Dakota
• Mechanical Characterizations of 3D-printed PLLA/Steel Particle Composites by a team from the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Precision Enhancement of 3D Printing via in-situ Metrology by a team from UCLA's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments and the NanoSystems Institute
• Feedstock for 3D Printing and Uses Thereof Patent application by a team from The University of Southern Denmark
• Interlayer Bonding Improvement of Material Extrusion Parts with Polyphenylene Dulfide Using the Taguchi Method by a team from the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering
• 3D Printed Sustainable Biochar-Recycled PET Composite by a team from Tuskegee University
• Monitoring Temperature in Additive Manufacturing with Physics-Based Compressive Sensing by a team from [www.me.gatech.edu The Mechanical Engineering School at Georgia Tech]
• 3D Printed Acoustic Metamaterial Sound Absorbers using Functionally-Graded Sonic Crystals by a team from the US Naval Research Laboratory
• Pharmaceutical 3D Printing: Design and Qualification of a Single Step Print and Fill Capsule by a team from Merck Pharmaceuticals
• Fabrication and Properties of Novel Polymer-Metal Composites using Fused Deposition Modeling by the Mechanical Engineering Staff at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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FDM/FFF, 2017

• NANOSATC-BR2, 2 unit CUBESAT, Power Analysis, Solar Flux Prediction, Design and 3D Printing of the Flight Model from the UFSM & INPE’S NANOSATC-BR, CUBESAT Development Program by a team from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brasil.
• Tensile Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene Composites Fabricated by Material Extrusion, a reviewed paper of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2017.
• Effect of Process Parameters and Shot Peening on Mechanical Behavior of ABS Parts Manufactured by Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), a reviewed paper of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2017.
• Hybrid Processes in Additive Manufacturing in the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Effects of Material Properties on Warpage in Fused Deposition Modeling Parts in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
• Thermal and Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Boron Nitride – ABS Composites, in Applied Composite Materials
• Dynamical Majorana edge modes in a broad class of topological mechanical systems by The New Jersey Institute of Technology

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FDM/FFF, 2016

• High Temperature Thermoplastic Additive Manufacturing Using Low-Cost, Open-Source Hardware published by NASA

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