Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (Second Volume)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 8069
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surface modification of polymers; DC and RF plasma; biomaterials; polymer composites; chemical and morphological characterization of polymers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Further to the success of the Special Issue of Materials on “Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications”, we are delighted to open a new Special Issue entitled “Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (Second Volume)”.
The rapidly growing field of biomedical engineering has been driven by advances in materials preparation and characterization techniques for target applications. The similarities between natural tissues, proteins and polymers (either synthetic or natural) with their long-chain architecture lead to the reasonable conclusion that polymers are better representations of natural tissue response compared with metals and ceramics, for example. For these reasons, polymers have attracted a lot of interest, even if their industrial application is prevented by their poor mechanical, thermal and barrier properties. Thus, there is an urgent need for the development of innovative and advanced biomaterials based on natural or synthetic polymers with natural and synthetic additives, both inorganic and organic, in order to provide an improved performance, in terms of cell adhesion, mechanical reinforcement, and antioxidant and antimicrobial features and to elicit specific biological responses, or to regenerate tissue or organs.
The present Special Issue on “Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (Second Volume)” welcomes contributions in the form of full articles, short communications, or review articles in topics related to the design, synthesis, characterization, surface modification and processing of multifunctional polymeric and composite biomaterials for use in different biomedical applications, including but not limited to medical implants and devices, drug delivery, tissue engineering and biosensors. This Special Issue represents a good opportunity for chemists, biologists, physicists, pharmacologists and physicians to put together different aspects of their research that aim to control complex and tunable chemical, mechanical and biological functions in vitro and in vivo.
Dr. Magdalena Aflori
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biopolymers
- biomimetic polymers
- scaffolds
- porous polymers
- composite materials
- hydrogels
- extracellular matrices
- surface modification
- tissue engineering
- micropatterns
- regenerative medicine
- cell adhesion
- cell proliferation
- cell–material interaction
- biocompatibility
- biodegradation
- antimicrobial
