Biomimetic Functional (Nano)materials

Dear Colleagues,

Nature provides a wide range of materials with multiple functions and impressive performances, made with a strict structural control from the molecular to the macroscopic scale, even following sustainable processes. Learning from nature’s strategies appears as the most promising approach to the design and formulation of high-performance multifunctional (nano)materials and devices, implementing green methodologies. In fact, studying biological systems can shed light on self-assembly processes, materials–cells interactions, supramolecular as well as hierarchical structures, interaction at the interface between inorganic and organic systems, as well as chemistry of hybrid and nanocomposite materials. This knowledge can constitute a powerful tool and holds huge promise in driving the design of cutting-edge functional (nano)materials for advanced technological applications ranging from superhydrophobic and self-cleaning surfaces, antioxidant and antimicrobial systems, self-healing (nano)materials, energy conservation facilities, and dry adhesion solutions to biomedical devices.

This Special Issue aims at collecting theoretical, experimental, and review contributions from a multidisciplinary community of chemists, physicists, biologists, material scientists, and engineers working on bioinspired chemistry and functional materials. It will provide an updated view of current achievements as well as hot challenges in this fast-growing field.

Submissions are welcome especially (but not exclusively) in the following areas:

• Self-healing (nano)materials;
• Biomineralization processes;
• Super-hydrophobic surfaces;
• Self-cleaning surfaces;
• Regenerative (nano)medicine;
• Tissue engineering;
• Antimicrobial (nano)materials;
• Structural colors;
• Processing–structure–property relationship.

Dr. Giuseppe Vitiello
Dr. Giuseppina Luciani
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Biomimetics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• green chemistry
• nanostructured materials
• synthesis methods
• hierarchical structures
• self-healing materials
• biomineralization processes
• self-cleaning surfaces
• processing–structure–property relationship
• regenerative medicine