Novel Hybrid, Smart, or Responsive Biomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

The next generation of biomaterials with enhanced performance and unique properties is required to solve current technological challenges. Over the past decades, novel biomaterials emerged that were able to make major biomedical advances. For example, significant growth in research has resulted in fields that include drug delivery, tissue engineering, immunoengineering, cancer research, and an array of cellular therapies like immunomodulation propelled by materials scientists and biologists alike. In most of these instances the developed biomaterials have unique functionality (or multifunctionality) that goes well beyond simple structural or physico-chemical features, demonstrating that biomaterials themselves can often instruct specific cell behaviors. Commonly, these innovation stem from research performed at the intersection of several fields including chemistry, material science, and bioengineering that when combined yielded previously unattainable results and biomaterial behaviors.

In this Special Issue on “Novel Hybrid, Smart, or Responsive Biomaterials” we are particularly interested in biomaterials that have customizable and tunable properties, including but not limited to: electrical, magnetic, thermal, mechanical, release and/or biological properties. The Special Issue aims to highlight within current trends the state-of-the-art bioengineering research on the fabrication, properties and the applications of such biomaterials.

We invite full papers, communications and reviews covering one or several of fields included in this Special Issue.

Prof. Adnan Memic
Prof. Sidi Bencherif
Guest Editors

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