Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

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Editors

Chander Prakash is Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering,

Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical

Engineering from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. His areas of research is

biomaterials, rapid prototyping and 3D printing, advanced manufacturing, mod-

eling, simulation, and optimization. He has more than 11 years of teaching expe-

rience and 6 years of research experience. He has contributed extensively to

titanium- and magnesium-based implant literature with publications appearing in

Surface and Coating Technology, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, ...