The 15th Anniversary of JFB—Innovative Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering: Regeneration of Soft and Hard Tissues
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 578
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The year 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of the Journal of Functional Biomaterials, a peer-reviewed, open access journal containing research relevant to the field of materials for biomedical use. So far, JFB has published more than 1700 papers from more than 9000 authors. We appreciate each author, reviewer, and academic editor whose support has brought us to where we are today.
To celebrate this significant milestone, we are publishing a Special Issue entitled “The 15th Anniversary of JFB—Innovative Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering: Regeneration of Soft and Hard Tissues”. The complexity and heterogeneity of human tissues led to the emergence of tissue engineering as an area of biomedical science in the 1980s, and this has since grown exponentially. Tissue engineering aims to regenerate human tissues and organs (e.g., bone, cartilage, skin, and liver) and create a balance between structure and function. Due to its cross-domain nature, tissue engineering (TE) gathers scientists, engineers, and physicians into multidisciplinary teams that employ a variety of methods to construct biological substitutes. Most human native tissues comprise complex three-dimensional (3D) structures, presenting different shapes, architectures, and extracellular matrix compositions. Research groups worldwide have endeavored to develop constructs that can mimic the complexity of native tissues; however, the development of 3D complex organ structures is far from being realized. Furthermore, these tissues, which are not static, have unique functions that are suited to dynamic changes in the conformation of tissues. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes original articles that present recent advances in biomaterials and TE strategies for the development of biologically functional products with structural organization. In addition, we welcome reviews papers that stimulate creative thinking in this area.
Dr. Pedro Morouço
Dr. Wanda Lattanzi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomaterials
- scaffolds
- bioprinting
- regenerative medicine
- cells
- mesenchymal stromal cells
- nanotechnologies
- nanomaterials
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