Biomanufactured Gels for Biomedical Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Engineered gel-based biomaterials represent foundational scaffold components in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and other biomedical fields. Their inherent three-dimensional network structures enable the retention of sufficient buffer fluids in physiological conditions, significantly benefiting the diffusion of fundamental biomolecules to cell fates. The physical properties of hydrogels, such as viscosity and Young’s modulus, also replicate the gel-like properties of intracellular and extracellular biological environments. These prominent properties have made gel-based biomaterials ideal for cell-involving and cell-mimicking applications in tissue engineering, both in vitro and in vivo.

Tailoring the advanced properties offered by the gel’s compositions, structures, and functionalities through biomanufacturing techniques to assemble the extracellular matrix of living tissues attracts remarkable interdisciplinary research interest. These techniques include but are not limited to 3D printing, electrospinning, microfluidics, injectables, patterning, and casting.

Biomanufacturing techniques combine biomechanical modelling, engineering reformation, material functionalisation, and cell biology development to construct innovative results that could benefit clinical applications in the future.

Given the thriving nature of gel-based biomaterials in tissue engineering applications, this Special Issue aims to showcase the state-of-the-art advances in tissue engineering fields such as cell encapsulation, cell delivery, drug delivery, wound healing, biomedical sensing, bio-inspired devices, etc. We look forward to your submission of intriguing results that will enrich and inspire this interdisciplinary field.

Dr. Yujia Zhang
Dr. Keyin Liu
Prof. Dr. Xin Jing
Prof. Dr. Hao-Yang Mi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• tissue engineering
• biofabrication
• biomaterials
• hydrogels
• computational modelling
• 3D printing
• cell encapsulation
• regenerative medicine
• medical device
• bio-inspired devices
• scaffolds
• injectable
• electrospinning
• microfluidic
• casting