Surface Engineering of Bone Implants
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Coatings for Biomedicine and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 1480
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrochemistry; PVD; CVD; biomaterials; coatings; calcium phosphate; oxides; bioglass; bone implants; corrosion
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Interests: electrochemical deposition; electrophoretic deposition; biomaterials; prosthetic coatings; calcium phosphates; bioactive glasses; bone substitutes; electron microscopy; X-ray microanalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The continuous aging of the worldwide population requires the development of innovative bone implants with the ability to repair or replace the functions of bone tissue. Implanted materials need specific biological, chemical, and mechanical surface properties for appropriate interactions with the body environment. Bone implants can be made of biocompatible metal, polymer, bioglass, or ceramic materials or a composite of these materials. Surface engineering, either by coating or surface treatment, is used to improve their surface properties, e.g., their bioactivity, biomechanical compatibility, topography, wettability, corrosion behavior, bone cell adhesion and growth, protein adsorption, etc. Relevant modern developments also include surface engineering that provides anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties to the surface of bone implants.
Within this framework, this Special Issue aims to present the latest developments in this field.
Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced biomaterials;
- Bioactive thin films and coatings;
- Hard tissue repair and regeneration;
- The functionalization of biomaterials;
- Bone implants with enhanced biological properties;
- Bone implants with enhanced mechanical properties.
Dr. Richard Drevet
Prof. Hicham Benhayoune
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surface
- bone implant
- bioactivity
- biocompatibility
- biomaterials
- hard tissue repair
- skeleton
- biomedical
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