Additive Manufacturing Frontiers (AMF) is a peer-reviewed international journal focusing on the rapidly developing field of Additive Manufacturing and related technologies, which will be launched on the Elsevier platform. AMF is supervised by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), and sponsored by the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES).
AMF is committed to providing a global exchange platform for academic research, technological innovation, and industrial development of additive manufacturing, including but not limited to the cutting-edge research, innovative approaches, latest technological progresses, etc.
AMF welcomes original research articles, reviews, letters, research highlights, and editorials.
The publishing scopes of AMF including but not limited to:
(1) Frontier exploration
New principles and new methods
Smart structure 3D printing
Biological 3D printing
4D printing
(2) Key bottleneck technologies
Innovative design and software
Process and equipment
Online quality monitoring
(3) Industrial applications
Standard research and development
Quality and testing
Case study
Submission checklist
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Ethics in publishing
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Declaration of competing interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should create a declaration of competing interest statement using this tool and upload to the submission system at the Attach Files step. Note: Please do not convert the .docx template to another file type. Author signatures are not required.
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
