Biomedical Composite Materials for Stem Cell Culture

Dear Colleagues,

Biomedical composite materials have recently attracted much attention in the field of tissue engineering. The combination of organic or inorganic materials with natural or synthetic materials are especially popular strategies due to their capability to overcome each other’s shortcomings. The combination of materials not only improves manufacture processing, it also enhances physicochemical properties of biomedical composite materials in terms of mechanical properties, bioactivity and degradability. Therefore, there are many novel and new studies focusing on the development of biomedical composite materials for drugs and gene delivery, bioprinting, cell therapy as well as stem cell culture.

Stem cells are an extremely important cell type in the field of tissue engineering, and stem cell culture can be divided into two directions: one is to maintain the undifferentiated state of stem cells, and the other is the guidance and regulation of stem cell differentiation. Studying the effects of biomedical composite materials for stem cells will improve the development of tissue engineering.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish cutting-edge applications related to advanced Biomedical composite materials for stem cell culture. All kinds of composite materials either synthetic/natural polymers or newly developed ones and stem cell types such as induced pluripotent stem cells(iPSC), mesenchymal stem cells(MSC) and adult stem cells, are all welcome.

It is a great pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue of Polymers.

Dr. Huai-En Lu
Dr. Ming-You Shie
Guest Editors

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