New Frontiers in the Development of Bioceramics for Health

Dear Colleagues,

The multidisciplinary research topic is aligned with the 32^nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Ceramics in Medicine – BIOCERAMICS32, held in Venezia Mestre, Italy on 20–23 September 2022 and welcomes original results from conference participants addressing development of Bioceramics for Health.

This multidisciplinary research topic aims to gather research results from material chemistry, engineering, nanotechnology, biology, and medicine.

For decades, the development of bioceramics and bioglasses with advanced biological functionalities has been intensively investigated, with the purpose to establish new solutions for the substitution and regeneration of human tissues, affected by trauma or degenerative diseases, thus solving still unmet clinical needs in orthopaedics, spinal and cranio-maxillofacial surgery, and dentistry. As the main target of bioceramics and bioglasses has always been the repair of musculoskeletal tissues, such as bone, teeth, and osteocartilaginous regions, recent results report that such a broad family of materials is promising for wider applications in nanomedicine, drug delivery in advanced therapy, soft tissue healing, skin care, and cosmetics, for which the development of functional bioceramic nanoparticles is steadily increasing, with a particular focus also on the possibility to prevent infections and biofilm formation on implanted devices, which is among the most serious concerns in medicine today.

In this broad scenario, the present Issue accepts contributions pinning on bioceramics and bioglasses development for wide application in health, spanning from nanoparticles, 3D scaffolds, and injectable devices, up to in vitro and in vivo studies, with the purpose to find physicochemical mechanisms and/or appropriate functionalization procedures enabling cell instruction, and bacterial inactivation, as well as to evaluate toxic effects related to nanoparticles accumulation in the body and in the environment.

Dr. Anna Tampieri
Dr. Simone Sprio
Guest Editors

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• ceramics
• glasses
• scaffolds
• nanoparticles
• functionalization
• tissue regeneration
• cell-material interaction
• nanomedicine