Hybrid and Composite Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 5669
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 3D bioprinting; bioink; biomaterials; tissue engineering; scaffold imaging; photocrosslinkable hydrogel
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomaterials are very important tissue engineering elements, providing shape and structure for tissue formation, and also delivering bioactive molecules to cells transplanted into biomaterials or the host cells around a transplant. Therefore, it is important to select an appropriate biomaterial to make a high-quality tissue. An ideal biomaterial should possess characteristics such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, and easy processing. Over the past decades, researchers have shown a growing interest in biomaterials for application in a variety of tissue engineering scaffolds.
However, it is difficult for a single biomaterial to have all the properties ideally required to achieve tissue regeneration. Therefore, through the development of hybrid or composite biomaterials, many studies are being conducted to produce materials that exhibit excellent properties of several materials at the same time or exhibit more special properties. Blends or composites of natural and synthetic polymers with diverse other materials has been testified to improve cell-to-cell interaction and facilitate incorporation with host tissues by enhancing the hydrophilicity, degradable properties, and physicochemical and mechanical properties of materials.
This Special Issue aims to introduce new biobased hybrid or composite materials and their applications to improve biomaterial properties for tissue formation, tissue repair, cellular behaviors, and so on. As the guest editors of the Special Issue on these topics, which will be published in the Materials journal (Publisher, MDPI, St Alban-Anlage 66, Basel, Switzerland; IF 2019: 3.057), we would like to invite colleagues who have experience in the regenerative medicine field, especially who are experts in tissue engineering, to participate. We highly recommend submitting papers focused on the topics described by the keywords below, but submissions on related topics that are not mentioned will also be considered.
Dr. Soon Hee Kim
Dr. Dae Hyeok Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biobased blend
- Hybrid materials
- Natural polymer
- Synthetic polymer
- Biodegradable polymers
- Nanocellulose-based biocomposites
- Hydroxyapatite-based biocomposites
- Polyester-based biocomposites
- Nanofibrils
- Nanobiocomposites
- Biohybrids
- Multiphase systems
- 3D bioprinting
- Tissue engineering
- Drug delivery
- Regenerative medicine
- Scaffold
- Biomaterials
