Biohybrid and Composite Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Throughout human civilization, nature has proven to be a fascinating inspiration for its elegant, precise, and accurate material design. Nature is also a reservoir for renewable and sustainable functional and structural materials and composites. Because of their precise structure and functionalities, biomolecules offer an excellent hybrid and composite material design platform. Examples include carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and biominerals. More importantly, due to continued advances in biotechnology, designer DNA molecules, DNA nanostructures, genetically modified virus coat proteins, and various hybrid systems have been explored for new generation functional materials, scaffolds, and devices.

This Special Issue is focused on the emerging concepts for the strategic design of structural and functional hybrid biomaterials, characterization and their application in materials science, biomedicine, and addressing other societal challenges such as water purification, carbon dioxide capture, and energy storage. Scientifically valid and technically sound papers related to any aspect of these biohybrid and composite materials—with an emphasis on the emerging trends in the field (listed as the keywords)—will be considered for this Special Issue. Each manuscript will be handled by the editorial board and peer-reviewed by referees.

We expect contributions from researchers working on a wide variety of chemistry, materials science, biology, physics, and computational science.

Prof. Dr. Nonappa
Dr. Eduardo Anaya Plaza
Dr. Veikko Linko
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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