Polymers toward Mechanobiology
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 4266
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mounting evidence has recognized that mechanical cues linked to extracellular milieus represent potent modulators in directing cell behavior, tissue development or eliciting onset of pathologies. Recapitulating spatial and temporal living tissue architecture is essential to comprehend, and eventually predict, cell fate decisions. Enormous efforts are currently being undertaken to assemble 2D and 3D networks exhibiting desired mechanics as a model to study cell response. Hence, bottom–up approaches encompassing the selection (and eventual chemical modification) of innovative polymers up to the assembly thereof are sought to unveil unprecedented materials.
The aim of this Special Issue of Polymers is to bring together researchers at the edge of polymer chemistry, materials assembly, and related applications in the mechanobiology field. A cadre of themes of large interest are welcomed, including—but not limited to—polymer chemical modifications to modulate resulting material mechanics and/or direct cell fate decisions, stimuli-responsive polymers, substrate-to-cell interplay (mechanotransmission/transduction), and recent developments in smart polymers in relation to mechanobiology, to mention just a few examples.
Dr. Pasquale Sacco
Guest Editor
Keywords
- polymer chemistry
- polymer application
- macromolecular assembly
- fabrication of innovative biomaterials
- mechanical investigation
- biomaterial-to-cell interplay
- mechanobiology
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