New Insight into Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 416
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterials; drug delivery system; material science; polymer chemistry; tissue engineering; nanomedicine
Interests: sensors; microfluidics textile; electronics; green electronics; edible electronics; wearable electronic
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced polymeric composites are excellent biomaterials, and they have potential applications in different industries, including medical science, due to their low price, easy availability, and fundamental, functional, and structural properties. Biomaterial engineering is a multidisciplinary field, and biomedical engineering has developed polymeric, hybrid, composite, and multifunctional biomaterials to treat medical issues in medical sciences. Several biomaterials have been designed and engineered using smart biopolymers due to their excellent antibacterial, anticancer, anti-tumor, biocompatible, biodegradable, inexpensive, easy availability, surface modification, and nontoxic behaviors. Natural polymers have been employed to develop hydrogels, microneedle nanofibers, nanocomposites, and scaffolds, with potential in tissue engineering, as they possess essential physicochemical, mechanical and biological properties. Several biopolymers, such as alginates, agar, arabinoxylan, carrageenan, cellulose, chitosan, guar gum, etc., have been used to design advanced biomaterials to address medical issues in tissue engineering. This Special Issue aims to present and discuss different approaches for biomedical issues using advanced biomaterials to resolve tissue engineering and other medical issues in biomedical engineering. This Special Issue welcomes research on advanced biomaterials, including hydrogels, aerogels, membranes, microneedles, nanofibers, and scaffolds for tissue engineering.
In celebration of the most impactful areas of research in Polymers, we are proud to present this feature Hot Topic* collection to highlight recent advances in advanced polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering.
This Special Issue aims to introduce advanced polymeric biomaterials in tissue engineering. Advanced polymeric biomaterials have emerged as the most promising candidates for tissue engineering applications due to their multifunctional, physicochemical, tailorable mechanical and biological characteristics, including acute environmental sensing, biocompatibility and biodegradability features, as well as advanced polymeric biomaterials produced from natural, synthetic or hybrid polymers. Several fabrication techniques have been characterized, all of which share monomers as building blocks coupled with an initiator and physical or covalent cross-linkers to generate final products. A rational design in advanced polymeric biomaterials preparation achieves the desired mechanism of action and guarantees successful tissue engineering applications.
Dr. Muhammad Umar Khan
Prof. Dr. Goran M. Stojanovic
Dr. Anwarul Hasan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced materials
- antibacterial activities
- biomaterials
- bone tissue
- biopolymers
- composite scaffolds
- drug delivery
- gene therapy
- hydrogels
- skin tissue
- wound healing
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