Precision Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering: Advanced Structural Design and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Precision could be the most important issue related to manufacturing. Precision manufacturing provides reliable high-quality mechanical parts, optical elements, and semiconductor substrates for industrial products. The accuracies of the recently developed precision manufacturing technologies are approaching the nanometer scale. Traditional high-precision material removal manufacturing technologies, including cutting, grinding, and polishing, only allow simple nanometer roughness control. High-precision optical manufacturing allows large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing, where multilayer 2D complex structural design can be realized. With the development of advanced additive precision manufacturing technologies and micro/nano manipulation technologies, micrometer and even nanometer complex 3D structural designs could be directly printed and assembled. These precision manufacturing technologies allow researchers to fabricate large biomimetic surfaces; create nano/micro machines to handle small tissues, single cells, and proteins; print optical elements directly, and regenerate artificial organs with internal microvascular networks. In general, the development of advanced precision manufacturing technologies can enable the creation of complex micrometer and nanometer structures, which also make structural design ever more important and significantly extend the application fields of precision manufacturing. 

Dr. Xiaoming Liu
Dr. Konstantinos P. Baxevanakis
Guest Editors

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• precision manufacturing
• subtractive precision manufacturing
• additive precision manufacturing
• micro/nano machines
• micro/nano manipulation
• micro/nano 3D printing
• micro/nano assembly
• precision biomaterials
• micro/nano biomimetic surface