Preface to the Special Issue: Additive Manufacturing
Xin Lin1()
1State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China
Online:2022-03-10
Published:2022-03-16
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Xin Lin
About author:Xin Lin, xlin@nwpu.edu.cn Xin Lin is Director of Key Laboratory of Metal High-Performance Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Design, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China.His research areas include metal additive manufacturing (AM) and solidification. He holds 30 Chinese patents and has published three monographs and over 400 articles in journals, such as Acta Mater., Addit. Manuf. His research on metal AM has found commercial applications in aviation, aerospace, power, energy, and medical fields, and met the urgent needs for highperformance, light-weighting, high integration, and high precision fabrication in these high-tech fields. The Royal Society awarded him a Newton Fellowship in the UK in 2015.