Layla Shams Tisha, Anastasiya Toenjes, Nils Ellendt
{"title":"Impact of Iron Contamination on Liquid Properties and Microstructural Evolution in AlSi20","authors":"Layla Shams Tisha, Anastasiya Toenjes, Nils Ellendt","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>AlSi20</b>\u0000 </p><p>In article number 2401541, Nils Ellendt, Layla Shams Tisha, and Anastasiya Toenjes investigate the effects of Fe contamination on AlSi20 alloys. Surface tension is experimentally measured using oscillating droplets, more thermophysical properties are calculated, and the microstructure after solidification is analyzed to reveal its dependence on the cooling rate.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Rosa Ziefuss, Stephan Barcikowski, Gerrit Albert Luinstra
{"title":"What If Materials Could Think Ahead?","authors":"Anna Rosa Ziefuss, Stephan Barcikowski, Gerrit Albert Luinstra","doi":"10.1002/adem.202501628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202501628","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized how we shape matter, but perhaps more profoundly, how we must now think about materials. Traditionally, materials were designed to be shaped—cast, rolled, and extruded—and their properties fixed well before the part existed. In AM, this logic is no longer valid: matter is deposited, fused, or cured layer by layer, and properties emerge during the process. Microstructures become spatially heterogeneous; functionality evolves as a design parameter. This shift turns the old paradigm on its head. The goal is no longer to select materials that can tolerate the stresses of AM; the new challenge is to design materials that actively enable it. To fully exploit AM's potential, from lightweight, load-adaptive structures to multimaterial integration (heat-resistant), materials must become co-designers of the process.</p><p>This mindset sparked the German Priority Program SPP 2122 “Materials for Additive Manufacturing,” funded by the DFG (uni-due.de/matframe/). Launched in 2018, the program brought together researchers from powder metallurgy, polymer chemistry, materials modeling, and process engineering. Their shared goal is to establish a material-centric foundation for AM, spanning metal and polymer powder devalopment, theory and experiment, nanoscale control, and industrial relevance.</p><p>To build on this vision, the SPP 2122 began with a systematic state-of-the-art analysis of AM from a materials perspective. Two comprehensive reviews—one on metal-based<sup>[</sup><span><sup>1</sup></span><sup>]</sup> and one on polymer-based<sup>[</sup><span><sup>2</sup></span><sup>]</sup> feedstocks—mapped out the scientific landscape of laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) over the past decade. The reviews identified the dominant materials (e.g., AlSi10Mg, PA12), prevailing process parameters, and emerging strategies such as nanoparticle additivation to overcome issues like anisotropy, cracking, or poor mechanical performance. By extracting and statistically analyzing material, process, and part properties across hundreds of studies, both works revealed that the future of L-PBF hinges on an integrated understanding of powder design, process control, and functional performance.</p><p>Complementing these reviews, a dedicated white paper laid the groundwork for a large-scale interlaboratory study (ILS) on powder bed fusion using a laser beam (PBF-LB) of metals and polymers.<sup>[</sup><span><sup>3</sup></span><sup>]</sup> It highlighted the urgent need for standardized test methods and reliable metrics to assess nanoadditivated powders across the entire process chain. The white paper emphasized how nanoparticles affect not only flowability and absorption but also microstructure formation and mechanical properties, and proposed a data-rich framework based on the findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR)-principles and principal component analysis to reveal hidden correlations across the material-process-part c","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202501628","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Rosa Ziefuss, Stephan Barcikowski, Gerrit Albert Luinstra
{"title":"What If Materials Could Think Ahead?","authors":"Anna Rosa Ziefuss, Stephan Barcikowski, Gerrit Albert Luinstra","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Materials for Additive Manufacturing</b>\u0000 </p><p>In article number 2501628, the cover captures the vision of SPP 2122: materials tailored for powder bed fusion. It highlights how laser interaction, nanoparticle integration, and process-aware material design enable stability, functionality, and property control—making materials active enablers of performance across both polymer and metal PBF systems. More information can be found in the Editorial by Anna R. Ziefuss, Stephan Barcikowski, and Gerrit A. Luinstra.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Layla Shams Tisha, Daniel Knoop, Nils Ellendt, Anastasiya Toenjes
{"title":"Influence of Cooling Rate on Primary Silicon Size in Hypereutectic Al–Si Alloy Fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion","authors":"Layla Shams Tisha, Daniel Knoop, Nils Ellendt, Anastasiya Toenjes","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Hypereutectic Al–Si Alloys</b>\u0000 </p><p>In article number 2401542, Anastasiya Toenjes and co-workers investigate how cooling rates affect primary silicon formation in PBF-LB/M-processed hypereutectic Al–Si alloys. Varying substrate temperatures and energy inputs influence the refinement of Si phases. Smaller primary silicon leads to higher hardness and improved mechanical properties.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laser Additive Manufacturing of Oxide-Dispersion-Strengthened Steels: A Simulation-Based Comparison Between Powder Bed Fusion and Direct Energy Deposition","authors":"Somnath Bharech, Yangyiwei Yang, Timileyin David Oyedeji, Prasanth Bondi, Mareen Goßling, Bilal Gökce, Bai-Xiang Xu","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Oxide-Dispersion-Strengthened Steels</b>\u0000 </p><p>In article number 2402946, Yangyiwei Yang, Bai-Xiang Xu, and co-workers show that numerical simulations, including multiphysics phase-field simulation and nanoparticle tracing, provide crucial insights into nanoparticle dispersion and agglomeration behavior during the laser additive manufacturing process of oxide-dispersion-strengthened (ODS) steel. It assists in the further tailoring of ODS steels to achieve desired mechanical properties, reducing waste of raw materials and energy.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Section on “Materials Technologies for Controlling Liquid–Surface Interactions from Wetting to Icing”","authors":"Anna Maria Coclite, Ana Borras","doi":"10.1002/adem.202501428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202501428","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The control of liquid–surface interactions is a fundamental principle in materials science and engineering, influencing a vast array of applications, from energy systems, where tailored wettability enhances heat transfer and fluid dynamics, to biomaterials, where surface properties dictate cell adhesion, biofouling prevention, and drug delivery, liquid–surface interactions remain pivotal. Their role extends further into microfluidics, enabling precise manipulation of droplets in lab-on-a-chip devices and into stimuli-responsive materials, where controlled wetting behavior dictates adaptive and functional performance.</p><p>A cornerstone in our understanding of wetting behavior was Young's equation (1805), which established the balance of interface forces at the three-phase contact line, defining the equilibrium contact angle of a liquid droplet on a solid substrate. Followed by the pioneering studies by Wenzel (1936) and Cassie–Baxter (1944), which further refined this knowledge by introducing wetting models that explain how surface roughness and chemistry influence liquid behavior. The Wenzel model describes liquid infiltration into textured surfaces, leading to strong adhesion, while the Cassie–Baxter model highlights the formation of air pockets on structured surfaces, resulting in extreme water repellency. These principles laid the groundwork for modern surface engineering, guiding the development of superhydrophobic coatings, icephobic materials, and adaptive wetting surfaces. Building upon these fundamentals and drawing inspiration from nature, including the hierarchical microstructures of lotus leaves, the rose petal effect, and hydrophobic adaptations in animal fur and insect legs, scientists have engineered precise wettability control to create surfaces with remarkable water management properties. These innovations have unlocked new functionalities, including self-cleaning coatings, enhanced water repellency, and responsive wetting control, with materials ranging from superhydrophobic and oleophobic surfaces to slippery liquid-infused porous films (SLIPS) and amphiphilic coatings.</p><p>The control of liquid–surface interactions has been critical in the design of icephobic surfaces, where the behavior of water droplets before freezing determines ice nucleation, adhesion, and removal mechanisms. Ice accretion presents a severe challenge, affecting not only daily life but also critical industrial applications. Frozen power lines, traffic signals, and transportation systems suffer from efficiency losses and increased maintenance demands, while wind turbines, solar panels, and aeronautical surfaces face performance degradation and safety risks.</p><p>Developing next-generation icephobic solutions requires interdisciplinary advancements in surface engineering, ice adhesion reduction, and mechanical durability, ensuring optimal performance under extreme environmental conditions. Thus, research efforts are expanding across three major domain","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202501428","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prabuddha De Saram, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Navid Kashaninejad
{"title":"Scalable Fabrication of Height-Variable Microstructures with a Revised Wetting Model","authors":"Prabuddha De Saram, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Navid Kashaninejad","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Height-Variable Microstructures</b>\u0000 </p><p>In article number 2500234, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Navid Kashaninejad, and Prabuddha De Saram reveal that CO<sub>2</sub> laser-machined PMMA molds enable scalable fabrication of height-variable microstructures in PDMS. The image illustrates the fabrication process and anisotropic wetting behavior on sharkskin-inspired surfaces, enhanced by a revised wetting model.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisa Matthäus, Hagen Peter Kohl, Dongmei Liu, Stephanie Lippmann, Stefan Nolte
{"title":"Additive Manufacturing of Highly Alloyed Aluminum–Lithium","authors":"Lisa Matthäus, Hagen Peter Kohl, Dongmei Liu, Stephanie Lippmann, Stefan Nolte","doi":"10.1002/adem.202500262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202500262","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aluminum–lithium alloys offer significant potential for lightweight construction, exhibiting decreased density and improved specific stiffness as the lithium content increases. The specific stiffness of these alloys improves with lithium concentrations up to 14 at%, outperforming that of pure aluminum. However, traditional casting methods, constrained by low cooling rates, result in the precipitation of brittle AlLi phases at grain boundaries when the lithium content exceeds 9 at%, limiting further enhancements in stiffness. In this work, it presents laser-assisted additive manufacturing of binary Al–Li alloy powder with an increased lithium content of 14 at%. Unlike standard methods, this study utilizes an ultrashort pulse laser with a pulse duration of 250 fs at a wavelength of 1030 nm for the powder bed fusion process. With an average power of 150 W and a repetition rate of 32.5 MHz, it successfully demonstrates the production of highly dense Al-Li alloy specimens. Ex situ laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy is conducted to verify the high lithium content of the additively manufactured samples. Mechanical properties are assessed by measuring the elastic modulus and hardness. In addition, computer tomography, electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction techniques are utilized for quantitative porosity analysis and to characterize microstructure and constituent phases.</p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202500262","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elaine Ng, Leopoldo A. Hernandez, Jianliang Lin, Elizabeth Young-Dohe, Charles R. Sullivan, Alex J. Hanson, Jean Anne C. Incorvia
{"title":"High-Rate Deposition and Characterization Study of CoZrO Films for On-Chip Power Applications","authors":"Elaine Ng, Leopoldo A. Hernandez, Jianliang Lin, Elizabeth Young-Dohe, Charles R. Sullivan, Alex J. Hanson, Jean Anne C. Incorvia","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>CoZrO Films</b>\u0000 </p><p>A transmission electron micrograph shows the nanostructure and composition of the studied CoZrO films, imagined as the core of an inductor. In article number 2402626, Alex J. Hanson, Jean Anne C. Incorvia, and co-workers develop a high-rate reactive sputtering process for CoZrO films. Characterization reveals that ideal magnetic properties require chemical compositions in a narrow Co:O range and uniform microstructure. This process enables scalable production of high-quality magnetic films for integrated power converter applications. Image created by undergraduate student Zhikai Tang.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144582192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marie Betker, Benedikt Sochor, Elisabeth Erbes, Alisher Kurmanbay, Tim Erichlandwehr, Yanan Li, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Irene Fernandez-Cuesta, Simone A. Techert, L. Daniel Söderberg, Stephan V. Roth
{"title":"Spray Deposition for Solvent Annealing of Hybrid Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Polystyrene Sulfonate Cellulose Silver Nanowire Composite Electrodes Using a Roll-to-Roll Coater","authors":"Marie Betker, Benedikt Sochor, Elisabeth Erbes, Alisher Kurmanbay, Tim Erichlandwehr, Yanan Li, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Irene Fernandez-Cuesta, Simone A. Techert, L. Daniel Söderberg, Stephan V. Roth","doi":"10.1002/adem.202570039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202570039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Spray Deposition</b>\u0000 </p><p>In article number 2402354, Daniel Söderberg, Stephan V. Roth, and co-workers report the annealing of sprayed poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS)-based electrodes via solvent spray deposition in a single roll-to-roll setup. In the image, the pi-stacking and increasing crystallite domain size of PEDOT (blue) due to the solvent annealing process are indicated.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":7275,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Engineering Materials","volume":"27 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adem.202570039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}