Advanced Applications of Bioencapsulation Technologies
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 32789
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Interests: nano- and biomaterials; nanoformulations; 3D cell cancer models
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of bioencapsulation technologies is a critical issue in numerous fields, including the agri-food sector and energetic industries up to medicine, in which the design of medical devices and the advent of tissue engineering and of new therapeutic approaches poses urgent questions about the biointerface.
The interaction of a living being with any types of materials, regardless of their structure, size, and final use, presupposes the establishment of biocoating methods that modulate the biological response on one hand, and the bioaffinity and the functionality of the material itself on the other.
Commonly, in tissue engineering interested in developing three-dimensional scaffolds that host cells to promote their growth rather than their differentiation, the support provided by the scaffold includes not only the structural matrix, the mechanical forces, and the permeability to nutrients, but also the chemical stimuli derived by the substrate/membrane interaction. In this sense, effective surface functionalization is of paramount importance.
Moreover, bioencapsulation may serve to create a protective shell around the cell membrane to limit the communication among different types of cells, as it happens in the case of transplanted cells to reduce the immune response of the host organism.
Thus, the term bioencapsulation technology can be generally applied to those chemical and physical approaches aimed at developing a biomimetic interface that faces and regulates the interactions between living beings (such as bacteria, human cells or more complex entities, like tissues and organs) and a counterpart that may be either another living being or an artificial body.
This Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “Advanced Applications of Bioencapsulation Technologies”, aims to cover recent advances in the encapsulation of biological compounds or entities for applications in medicine and biology.
Dr. Alessandra Quarta
Dr. Riccardo Di Corato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioencapsulation
- Biocoatings
- Polymers
- Tissue engineering
- Biomaterials
- Drug delivery
- Cell-based therapy
- Biosensors
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