**About the Editors**

#### **Yadir Torres Hern´andez**

Yadir Torres Hernandez. Interests: design and manufacture of porous materials; surface ´ modification (physical and chemical); biofuntional (osseointegration, cells, and bacterial response) and tribo-mechanical (instrumented micro-indentation, fracture, fatigue, scratch resistance, and wear) behavior; biomaterials; tool materials (cemented carbides, cermet's, and multi-layered: alumina-zirconia, WC-Co/WC-Co, and Cermet/WC-Co); powder metallurgy (conventional and space-holder technique).

#### **Ana Mar´ıa Beltr ´an Custodio**

Ana Mar´ıa Beltran Custodio. Interests: active packaging; bioplastics; electrospinning; interfaces; ´ injection moulding, mixing; proteins; rheology; food by-products.

#### **Manuel F ´elix Angel ´**

Manuel Felix ´ Angel. Interests: design; nano-structure and chemical studies by scanning- ´ transmission electron microscopy techniques; biomaterials.
