Collection

Green Manufacturing for Sustainable World

Our societies face several open challenges in the near future, for example, producing sufficient amounts of clean energy from renewable resources, designing new technologies that enable a sustainable economic growth, addressing some relevant environmental issues like quality of air and water or waste recycling, improving our standard of life via more accurate diagnostic tools and new medical treatments. Most of these challenges deal with the design and manufacturing. Environmentally friendly manufacturing is one of industry’s greatest strategic challenges, not only from a technological perspective, but also from a business and marketing perspective.

This special issue delivers the state-ofthe- art of green manufacturing technologies including lightweight and ecofriendly composite materials, design, manufacturing, improvement of manufacturing efficiency, energy saving, energy harvesting and manufacturing of new renewable energy systems. Emphasis is given to articles addressing design and manufacturing issues in the area of ecofriendly and functional nanocomposite materials, active materials, 3-D printing and hybrid manufacturing.

Editors

Articles (62 in this collection)