3D Bioprinting: Materials, Process, and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomanufacturing; organ-on-a-chip; tissue engineering; biomedical instrumentation; artificial intelligence; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
Bioprinting is a three-dimensional (3D) fabrication technology used to accurately dispense cell-laden biomaterials for the fabrication of complex and native 3D functional living tissues. While advances have been made in this field with the introduction of advanced bioprinter devices, there is still significant variability in structural and functional characteristics of bioprinted tissues depending on the biomaterials used. Biomaterials used as bioinks for bioprinting should exhibit stability and non-cytotoxicity by supporting cell viability as a function of biocompatibility. Many biomimetic materials often lack the mechanical strength to be the sole material in printed tissues, and tunable bioinks with a wide range of material properties could be a possible approach through the creation of new composite mixtures.
Papers are sought in areas that address the development of bioink for bioprinted constructs that replicate a certain degree of tissue organization needed for translation of bioprinted tissue towards clinical application, metamaterials that can be used to tweak the mechanical behavior of printed constructs, bioinks that improves vascularization of tissue constructs, differential graded bioinks for regulated and systemic degradation due to cellular proliferation, viscoelastic function of bioink for regulating the structural and biological integrity of printed materials, enforcing microenvironmental niches for bioprinting, real-time monitoring of biological features of printing bioink, bioprinting over microfluidic platforms, and bioprinting that conserves micro-patterning.
Prof. Dr. Kunal Mitra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioink
- 3D bioprinting
- smart materials
- metamaterials
- tissue constructs
- vascularization
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