Medical Biomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications

A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on “Medical Biomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application”. Biomaterials have received a great deal of attention in medical performance due to their unique biological, mechanical, and physical properties. In the recent decade, the field of biomaterials engineering has gained a leading role in medical science and engineering and attracts great scientific and research interest with a view to producing cost-effective and advanced multifunctional materials for biomedical applications. This Special Issue will primarily focus on synthesis, characterization, and development of surface modification strategies for biomaterials and on improving an understanding of the biomaterial surface structure and its relationship to biological performance.

We invite investigators majoring in the biomaterials and medical area to contribute review and original papers describing the present need and future challenges of biomaterials and discussing recent breakthroughs on biomaterial-designing efforts revolutionizing biomedical fields.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Surface modification of bioinspired biomaterials;
  • Self- assembly biomaterials (ceramics and polymers);
  • Novel concepts to synthesis biomaterials;
  • Biomedical biomaterials:
    • 3D cell culture and tissue engineering;
    • 3D tissue/organ model;
    • Bio-artificial organ;
    • Monitoring cell/tissue interactions with 3D cell culture;
    • Human organ-on-chip models;
    • 3D Models in cancer research;
  • Pharmaceutical biomaterials:
    • Physical properties;
    • Nanostructures properties;
    • Additive manufacturing;
    • In vitro and in vivo evaluation;
    • Micro fabrication;
    • Drug delivery systems;
    • Gene delivery.

Dr. Debasish Kuila
Dr. Shanta R. Bhattarai
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A Facile Approach to Increasing the Foliage Retention of Pesticides Based on Coating with a Tannic Acid/Fe3+ Complex
by Heng Zhi, Manli Yu, Junwei Yao, Changjiao Sun, Bo Cui, Xiang Zhao, Yan Wang, Haixin Cui and Zhanghua Zeng
Coatings 2020, 10(4), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10040359 - 6 Apr 2020
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The effective utilization of many conventional pesticide formulations is less than 30%, which can increase the environmental impact of these substances. This degree of waste could be reduced by improving the adhesion of pesticides to foliage. In the present work, a complex comprising [...] Read more.
The effective utilization of many conventional pesticide formulations is less than 30%, which can increase the environmental impact of these substances. This degree of waste could be reduced by improving the adhesion of pesticides to foliage. In the present work, a complex comprising tannic acid (TA) and Fe3+ ions was used to encapsulate azoxystrobin and avermectin water dispersible granule (WDG) formulations (termed Az-WDG-TA and Av-WDG-TA) to improve adhesion. The treated pesticides exhibited improved photostability as well as sustained continuous release behavior. The retention proportions of the Az-WDG-TA and Av-WDG-TA on cucumber and lettuce foliage were improved by more than 50%. The ability of solutions of these materials to wet foliage was also enhanced after coating, such that the toxicity of Av-WDG-TA to aphids and the antifungal activity of Az-WDG-TA to Fusarium oxysporum were increased by nearly 50%. Given the low cost of TA and Fe3+ compounds and the simple synthesis process, this method represents a promising means of producing foliage-adhesive pesticide formulations with increased retention and bioavailability. Full article
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