Research on materials for use in AM needs to balance the trade-off between its application suitability and its printability, i.e.,  the materials behaviour during the printing process.

The research developed at Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CfAM) aims to understand the fundamental link between the AM processes, microstructure and properties of the printed parts, to inform practitioners on how to appropriately select and develop materials in an efficient manner.

This aim is supported by multi-disciplinary research on the development of new techniques for new material synthesis, the study of in-situ or post-deposition material properties, printability tests at lab-scale, a suite of techniques dedicated to characterisation of AM materials, the development of dedicated software and modelling of computation thermodynamic and kinetics.