Functional Biodegradable Polymeric Systems for Tissue Regeneration
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 April 2022) | Viewed by 421
Special Issue Editors
2. POLYMAT-Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain
Interests: biodegradable polymeric systems for medical applications and/or tissue regeneration; piezoelectric polymeric systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tissue repair and regeneration is one of the major challenges of these days. Biodegradable polymers play a important role in tissue engineering. Their tunable degradation times, and physical, chemical, electrical and mechanical properties, make it possible to design advanced functional 3D scaffolds to regenerate different tissues. The combination of biodegradable polymers with nano- and micro- fillers make even wider the possibility of getting new advanced cell substrates for effective tissue regeneration. Moreover, advanced processing techniques and the incorporations of biologics or drug delivery might boost biodegradable polymeric systems in this field.
This Special Issue aims to present a collection of original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews that focus on advanced functional polymeric systems for applications in tissue engineering. Topic of interest include:
- Development of functional biodegradable polymeric substrates
- Development of electoactive biodegradable polymeric systems
- Development of nano- and micro- structured biodegradable composites
- Fabrication of functional scaffolds for bone and neural tissue regeneration
Dr. Jone Ugartemendia
Dr. Robert Aguirresarobe Hernández
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biodegradable polymeric systems
- Functionalized polymers
- Tissue Engineering
- Nano- and micro-structured polymeric systems
- Electroactive polymeric systems
- 3D scaffolds
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