Prof. Antonio Gloria, National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, Italy.

Prof. Antonio Gloria, National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, Italy is going to attend 2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology scheduled on May 16-17, 2019 at Prague, Czech Republic.

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Title: Additive manufacturing and iron-doped materials towards the design of multifunctional nanocomposite structures

Conceptual design, process selection, design steps, and design for manufacturing are important features in the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) method. The importance of Reverse Engineering (RE), Additive Manufacturing (AM), computer-aided design (CAD) and theoretical/experimental analyses has been already reported in the literature.

On the other hand, the control of the process–structure–property relationship of a material plays an important role in the design of devices featuring desired properties. Polymers, iron-doped materials and polymer-based nanocomposites have been designed and analyzed in different fields.

In the biomedical field, the applicability of porous structures and lattices has been widely discussed with a special focus on the design and fabrication of orthopedic implants and scaffolds for tissue regeneration. With regard to tissue engineering, 3D porous structures may be properly optimized for cell attachment and growth, as well as in terms of biocompatibility, degradation, bioresorbability, mass transport, and mechanical properties. Topology optimization and several issues related to homogenization and periodicity, as well as manufacturing constraints, have to be considered. Benefiting from the nanotechnology approach, nanomaterials and nanostructures have been widely developed and studied. As an effect of novel physical properties related to the nanoscale features, nanomaterials have more interesting properties in comparison to their microstructured counterparts. Functionalization strategies have also been employed to improve the surface properties of the developed devices.

It is through the combination of nanocomposites (i.e., polymers and iron-doped materials) and additive manufacturing that the present research is aimed at presenting the current advances in the design of advanced structures for industrial and biomedical applications