Special Issue "Biodegradability of Materials"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Torchilin
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Mugar Building, Rm 312, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02129, USA
Website: http://www.northeastern.edu/bouve/directory/faculty.php?name=Vladimir%20P.%20Torchilin
E-Mail: v.torchilin@neu.edu
Phone: +617 373 3206
Fax: +617 373 7509
Interests: Drug carriers, Drug delivery sytems, Drug targeting, Liposomes, Micelles, Experimental cancer immunology, Imaging agents

Editorial Advisor
Dr. Naozumi Teramoto
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology 2-17-1, Tsudanuma, Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan
E-Mail: teramoto-n@sea.it-chiba.ac.jp
Phone: +81 47 478 0406
Fax: +81 47 478 0439
Interests: biomaterial; bio-based polymer; bioplastics; biodegradable polymer; biopolymer; composite material comprising a polymer matrix

To protect environment, the biodegradable materials have great advantage. However, sometimes, for material stability, biodegradation is a problem, for example, the biomedical materials.

Related Special Issues in other Journals

• Biodegradability of Materials in the Int. J. Mol. Sci.
• Biodegradability and Environmental Sciences in the Int. J. Environ. Res. Pub. Health
• Biodegradation: Organic, Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry in Molecules

Submission

All papers should be submitted to materials@mdpi.com. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special issue website.

Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed quarterly journal published by MDPI. Review manuscripts: Before writing their manuscripts, potential authors of review articles should forward the title and a short abstract to materials@mdpi.com. We will then provide feedback on the suitability of the topic.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

Article Processing Charges (APC) will be waived for well prepared manuscripts of invited papers. For the first two volumes of this new journal the APC are of 300 CHF (or 550 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections).

biodegradable polymers, organics or materials