Micro-/Nanofabrication: Advances and Applications
A special issue of Methods and Protocols (ISSN 2409-9279).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2019) | Viewed by 329
Special Issue Editor
Interests: development of new micro- nano-fabrication techniques for applications in biomedical engineering and in particular to tissue engineering, biosensors, and actuators; study of principal cell activities on polymeric microfabricated structures; development of bioreactors in order to mimic the physiological environment for cell or tissue culture; mechanical, chemical, and cell characterization of new biomaterials for applications to biomedicine and tissue engineering; design of new biomaterial functionalization methodologies to improve cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation; development of in-silico cell models through the fusion of automatic controls principles and of cell biochemical reactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, a successful and rational strategy has been proposed to combine the performance of natural or synthetic polymers with the features of micro and nanofabrication techniques in order to develop novel 3D functional structures that can find application in several areas, such as medicine, environment, industry and life. Additive Manufacturing, also known as Rapid Prototyping, allows to process a number of different materials, and to control pore volume and architecture in a CAD/CAM manner with a micrometric resolution. RP techniques can be integrated and hybridized with others to introduce nano-scale features and improve the performance of fabricated structures.
In this Special Issue the novelties, applications and advances of micro and nanofabrication techniques will be presented.
Prof. Giovanni Vozzi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microfabrication
- nanofabrication
- multimaterial structure
- multiscale structure
- integrated approach
