Polymer Materials for Organ Engineering or Manufacturing
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2023) | Viewed by 415
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing Technology, Ministry of Education & Center of Organ Manufacturing, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
Interests: 3D printing; biomaterials; organ manufacturing; stem cells; cells-derived exosomes; biomedical devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biography
Wang Xiaohong, an associate professor of the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University. She received the Ph.D. degree from Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology on digital crystal resonant force sensors, Tsinghua University, in 1998. As a visiting scholar, she did the research on the electrode materials of micro solid oxide fuel cells in Professor Prinz Fritz’s group, in Stanford University, during Nov. 2005 to Oct. 2006. She also had a three-month visiting research experience in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and UCLA, on micro fuel cells and nano – photodetector devices in 2001 and 2007, respectively.
Research Interest
Her research interests include microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), MEMS integration technologies, and silicon-based Power MEMS recently. She served as the Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE MEMS’2009 conference.
Organ engineering or manufacturing is an exciting area that can bring huge benefit to human beings. Over the last decade we have solved all the bottleneck problems, such as large scale-up tissue/organ manufacturing, high throughput drug screening, hierarchical vascular/neural network construction, step-by-step stem cell inducement, fully endothelialization of the inner surface of the vascular networks, long-term bioartificial tissue/organ preservation, which have perplexed tissue engineers, biomaterial researchers, pharmacists and other scientists for more than several decades through several series of advanced automatic and semi-automatic organ manufacturing technologies and cell-laden polymer hydrogels. The biocompatible polymer processing technologies hold the capability to significantly improve the quality of human lives and prolong the average life-span of human beings in the near future.
With the rapid development of modern sciences and technologies, new polymer processing techniques for organ engineering or manufacturing have emerged. The processed polymers exhibit tunable physicochemical properties, attractive physiological functions and organ restoration capabilities.
Within this Special Issue “Polymers for organ engineering and manufacturing”, we invite contributes on various biocompatible polymer processing techniques for bioartificial organ engineering or manufacturing, and their biomecial applications, such as drug screening, disease modeling, and organ restoration.
Prof. Dr. Xiaohong Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biocompatible polymers
- polymer processing techniques
- three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting
- organ engineering or manufacturing
- hierarchical vascular/neural network construction
- characterization of cell-laden hydrogels
- complex organ manufacturing and restoration
- hierarchical vascular/neural network construction
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