Programming Crystallographic Orientation in Additive‐Manufactured Beta‐Type Titanium Alloy (Adv. Sci. 28/2023)

Crystallographic Orientation In article number 2302884, Xuan Luo, Annett Gebert, Yuanyuan Li, Chao Yang, and co‐workers establish a technique of multi‐track coupled directional solidification (MTCDS) to program the <001> crystallographic orientation along an arbitrary 3D direction in biomedical beta‐type alloys via laser powder bed fusion. It is expected that MTCDS can be generalized to a wide range of applications where specific crystallographic orientation at defined locations/region of a component is needed, especially for medical load‐bearing bone implants with microstructure‐controlled and locally variable elastic modulus for optimal stress shielding reduction. [Image: see text]