Hollow Fiber Membrane Bioreactors
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2016) | Viewed by 340
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hollow fibre membrane bioreactors can now be considered as an indispensable technology in medical and tissue engineering applications, ranging from bioartificial liver devices to stem cell expansion and drug testing to cultured meat. They are highly suited to these applications due to their large surface area to volume ratio, mild operating conditions, and the fact that the fiber structure replicates blood vessels, acting as ‘pseudovascularisation’ for the cells in the bioreactors. In this Special Issue we invite original papers relating to the design and application of hollow fiber membrane bioreactors for medial and tissue engineering applications. All relevant topics will be considered including fundamental cell culture and materials, engineering design, mathematical modeling, and user-focused data. Together these papers will provide a collated state-of-the-art resource on hollow fiber membrane bioreactors. I look forward to reading your submissions.
Dr. Marianne J. Ellis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Artificial organs
- Bioprocessing
- Bioreactor
- Hollow fiber
- In vitro
- Mathematical modeling
- Non-animal technologies
- Regenerative medicine
- Scaffold
- Tissue engineering
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