Coatings for Biomedical Applications: Biocompatibility, Drug Delivery, Antibiosis and Tissue Engineering
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactive Coatings and Biointerfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface modifications; high performance biomaterials design; surface characterization; surface nanocrystallization; biomedical coatings
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your works to a Special Issue on “Coatings for Biomedical Applications: Biocompatibility, Drug Delivery, Antibiosis and Tissue Engineering”. This Special Issue will bring together papers with topics involved in preparations and characterization of thin film/coatings on different substrates for biomedical use.
The preparation techniques could include physical methods such as surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT), physical vapor deposition (PVD), magnetron sputtering, thermal evaporation, ion implantation, spray coating, electrospinning, and chemical methods such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), sol-gel method, hydrothermal, microarc oxidation, to develop coating materials, thin films, and nanostructured films.
The characterization of studied materials could include clarifications of crystal structures (XRD, HRTEM), morphology (AFM, SEM), composition-stoichiometry (EDS, XPS), electric potential (zeta potential), doped-ion release (ICP-MS), hydrophilic property (contact angle measurement), the biocompatibility (MTT, CCK-8, cell staining), drug delivery (responsive to different conditions), antibacterial property (growth of various bacteria), and tissue engineering.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the preparation and characterization of functional inorganic/organic/hybrid coatings (thin films) for biomedical applications.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Progress in biomedical thin-film growths and characterization techniques;
- Processing condition–structure–property relations;
- Surface modification to enhance the bioactivity of the biomaterials;
- Structural, morphological, and antibacterial properties of thin films and coating materials;
- Drug delivery and controlled release to precisely treat disease of coating materials;
- The influence of thin films/coatings on the growth of various tissues.
Dr. Run Huang
Dr. Yusong Pan
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- preparation techniques
- coatings
- characterization and biomedical applications
- surfaces and interfaces
- nanomaterials
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