Technology · Additive manufacturing
Who is working on additive manufacturing?
Metal and polymer 3D printing has moved from prototypes to qualified parts, and the open questions are now about process control, materials and certification. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.
What the Helikon Research Graph holds on additive manufacturing
61,000+
researchers
174,000+
publications
5,200+
U.S. patents
Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 8 October 2026; rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they are not added together.
How these were counted
- Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
- U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: B33Y, B22F, B29C. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
- Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
- Keyword set:
"additive manufacturing" OR "3D printing" OR "3D printed" OR "three-dimensional printing" OR "selective laser melting" OR "laser powder bed fusion" OR "powder bed fusion" OR "directed energy deposition" OR "binder jetting" OR "stereolithography" OR "fused deposition modeling" OR "electron beam melting"
Try it on a real problem
Partner Search ranks researchers against a problem statement by what their publications, patents and profiles say. This one is ready to run; edit it to fit your project.
We are qualifying a laser powder bed fusion process for a nickel superalloy part and need researchers who can help us control porosity and residual stress, and predict fatigue life from build parameters.Run this in Partner Search
Who is working on this
University manufacturing and materials science groups, national laboratories with additive programs, and company research teams in aerospace, medical devices and tooling. Many inventors here also publish, so a patent often leads you to the lab behind it.
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