Antimicrobial Provided Advanced Materials for Biomedical Engineering Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2023) | Viewed by 2199
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobials; (bio)polymers; nanoparticles; wound dressings; prosthetic materials; catheters; cardiac devices; transdermal patches; medical devices
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Interests: antimicrobials; (bio)polymers; nanoparticles; wound dressings; prosthetic materials; catheters; cardiac devices; transdermal patches; medical devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During recent decades, tremendous research and development efforts have been made for medical applications of smart materials as potential medical devices of external and internal use. Thus, burns and wounds, tissue reconstruction and regeneration, but also transdermal drug controlled-release are important therapeutic targets. Association of antimicrobial activity has been compulsory, or at least promoting their efficacy in many cases, especially having in view the increasing dangerous environment generated by the antibiotic resistant microorganisms.
This Special Issue will focus on such advanced materials provided with antimicrobial activity due to included specific active agents, usable in recalcitrant infected wounds healing, orthopedics (bone and cartilage regeneration), traumatology, dentistry and maxillofacial surgery, and cardiac devices. The antimicrobials will be directly therapeutic or preventing microbial contamination/fouling, sometimes formulated as nanoparticles, included in different functional biocompatible materials, frequently (bio)polymers. Their efficacy in vitro/in vivo will highlight the advantages of ensuring antimicrobial activity in accelerating the healing and tissue regeneration processes. The meeting of certain safety conditions, depending on the type of contacted tissue (surface damaged tissue, implant), related to a medical device outlook, are very welcome. Methods for antimicrobial characterization for such materials are particularly considered.
Dr. Misu Moscovici
Dr. Angela Casarica
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobials
- (bio)polymers
- nanoparticles
- wound dressings
- prosthetic materials
- catheters
- cardiac devices
- transdermal patches
- medical devices
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