Smart Biomaterials in Regenerative Engineering
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026 | Viewed by 1083
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tissue engineering; biomaterials
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Interests: bone regeneration; biomaterials; mesenchymal stem cell differentiation, cell–biomaterial interaction; cell culture; molecular biology; cell biology; tissue engineering; biocompatibility; scaffolds; nanomaterials; cellular mechanisms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last decades, a variety of tissue engineering strategies have been developed to improve the regenerative properties of biomaterials. This Special Issue on “Smart Biomaterials in Regenerative Engineering” will provide an overview of recent advances and cutting-edge approaches in the field of smart biomaterials, which are able to respond to specific stimuli, enabling them to interact with biological systems in a controlled manner. In particular, smart biomaterials can be generally classified into two categories: those that respond to physical stimuli (e.g., temperature, pressure, light, magnetism or electromagnetism) and those that respond to chemical/biochemical stimuli (e.g., pH, ions’ concentration, or set of enzymes). For example, thermoresponsive hydrogels can react to changes in temperature, causing them to swell or contract, whereas light-responsive materials are stimulated by light triggering the release of drugs or growth factors, or enzyme-responsive scaffolds release drugs in diseased tissues. In addition, smart biomaterials and scaffolds have also tuneable properties such as stiffness, porosity, biodegradability, biosensing of biomolecules, surface chemistry and surface physics. Original contributions are welcome reporting innovative smart biomaterials and examples with chemical, biochemical, physical stimuli and different cell types. Thus, we invite the submission of full papers and reviews describing the latest progress.
Dr. Lorenzo Fassina
Dr. Nora Bloise
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tissue regeneration
- smart biomaterials
- chemical
- biochemical
- physical stimuli
- cells
- drugs
- growth factors
- cell/tissue–biomaterials interaction
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