Recent Advance in the Application of Bioprint and Biomaterials
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Regenerative Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 14719
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 3D printing; biodegradable polymer; bioprinting; controlled drug release; tissue engineering
Interests: multi-material additive manufacturing; biomaterials; photoreactive formulations; inkjet based 3D printing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial tissues and organs with similar functions and architecture to their biological counterpart are used for reducing medical testing costs, addressing problems in tissue placement and organ shortage in transplantation. Three-dimensional bioprinting, a state of the art technology, allows biomaterials, cells and growth factors to be integrated and patterned on demand. It is gaining overwhelming interest from clinicians and researchers due to its ability to fabricate highly sophisticated constructs. Three-dimensional bioprinting technologies are an extensible application of additive manufacturing technologies, including extrusion-based, projection-based, inkjet-based and laser-based printing techniques. The bioink, a combination of structure material, cells, growth factors and other components, is structured in a layer-by-layer manner into desired geometries or devices. The recent application of bioprinting includes scaffolds or scaffolds-free constructs, organs, tissues, organ-on-a-chip, etc. This Special Issue seeks articles that present novel bioinks, new manufacturing technologies, new bioprinting protocols and designs in the bioprinting field that will lead to physiologically optimized artificial constructs with particular interests in:
- New bioprinting technologies;
- Novel functional, biocompatible material/bioink formulations for bioprinting;
- Bioprinting mathematical modelling and design optimization;
- Bioprinted devices with controlled releasing of active ingredients (drug, growth factors, etc.);
- Multi-material/multi-functional devices for tissue engineering/drug screening;
- Design and application of medical-related new materials;
- Evaluation and analysis of biocompatibility and safety of medical implants by bioprinting;
- 4D bioprinting;
- Recent progress in other bioprinting-related fields.
Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiao Han
Dr. Yinfeng He
Dr. Liyang Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioprinting
- biomaterials
- tissue engineering
- controlled release
- 4D printing
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