Functional Materials for Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

The Workshop: Functional Materials for Healthcare (Fun4Health; Rende, Italy: 6 April, 2017) hopes to be an opportunity for the presentation of innovative advances in the design and synthesis of functional materials with applications in healthcare areas. The biomaterials field is, indeed, one of the largest and fastest-growing multidisciplinary research areas, both in the scientific community and in industry. As a matter of fact, they are expected to open up new possibilities and applications in diagnostics, therapy, smart textiles, drug delivery, and tissue repair and regeneration. This Special Issue selects excellent papers and reviews from the forthcoming FUN4Health and is useful as a forum for communicating the latest findings and trends in the study of biomedical materials. The materials and topics of interest are broad and include many different aspects, including those covered by the keywords below.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Puoci
Dr. Giuseppe Rosace
Dr. Maria Rosaria Plutino
Prof. Maria Stefania Sinicropi
Guest Editors

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