Trends and Prospects in Biomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

Biomaterials are evolving every day to target increasingly complex medical functions and to regenerate and/or model specific tissues. This evolution also emerges from a rise in the techniques for their manufacturing and requires, in parallel, more complex techniques for the characterization of these new materials and devices.

Here, we focus on the development of new biomaterials and/or manufacturing techniques and their use for tissue regeneration or modelling for specific medical applications, with a special interest in orthopaedics, wound healing, and the treatment of infection. We also spotlight new techniques or protocols for their characterization and for the study of their advanced performance.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following: new biomaterials for targeted medical applications; biomaterials and medical devices for orthopaedics; biomaterials for wound healing; antibacterial materials and coatings; new validation procedures for biomaterials and medical devices; biomaterials-assisted tissue models; and new manufacturing techniques.

Dr. Gabriela Graziani
Guest Editor

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