Special Section on Recent Advancements in Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing From the WCMNM2019

Abstract

This special section of the ASME Journal of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing contains selected papers presented at the World Congress of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing (WCMNM 2019) in Raleigh, NC. The congress is an annual international gathering of micromanufacturing experts organized by three societies—I2M2 (the International Institution on Micro-Manufacturing), IFMM (the International Forum on Micro-Manufacturing), and 4 M Association, representing primarily micro-manufacturing communities of Americas, Asia, and Europe, respectively.The selection of technical briefs represented in this issue reflects the latest developments in the evolving field of micromanufacturing research. Traditional reductive and forming processes continue to attract attention of researchers as evidenced by many papers in this special section issue (by Sundharamoorthi et al., Liao et al., Mittal et al., Zhang et al., Rathmann et al., Dancholvichit et al., and Zheng et al.). Laser-related and other energy-based technologies scale well as size of features to be machined is reduced: therefore, these technologies are employed widely in micromachining for forming features and introducing surface patterns (Yamamuro et al., Guo et al., Bhandari et al., Zhao et al., Akin et al., Haoxuan et al., Meinam et al., and Matsumura et al.). As the field of nano-manufacturing continues to grow, control of synthesis of nanotubes becomes a topic of interest as represented in this issue by paper from M. Bedewy. Additive manufacturing is also a growing field, encompassing various techniques from stereolithographic additive processes (Rebaioli et al. and Valentincic et al.) to fused deposition modeling techniques (Basile et al.).