New Trends in Bio-Resorbable Metals

Topic Information

Dear Colleagues,

Bio-resorbable metals are under study as promising materials to manufacture temporary biomedical devices to avoid the potential side effects of perpetual implants, such as the need for removal from the host body. Due to the increasing average age of the population and mobility of persons, we expect a larger number of patients requiring implants and prosthesis showing higher performance, such as modulated biodegradable absorption, better biocompatibility, ad hoc designed mechanical behavior, and so on. Therefore, the need arises to use a multi-disciplinary approach, to develop new or ameliorated alloys, improved biological response, tailored mechanical properties, improved surface treatments, etc., to provide support for the development of biodegradable metallic devices. Research into new metallic alloys, new functional surface modifications and coatings, improved biocompatibility, and new texturing and shaping technologies is, to date, among the most fertile areas of interest in both the academic and industrial fields.

This Topic on “New Trends in Bio-Resorbable Metals” aims to publish some of the best research and reviews in the area of metallic resorbable biomaterials applications and will cover topics such as:

• Surface modifications for enhanced biological response
• Surface modification for infection control
• Biodegradable coatings
• Bio-functionalization
• Cold plasma treatments
• Design of drug delivery systems
• Additive manufacturing of metallic biomaterials
• Biodegradable metallic biomaterials
• New alloys as biomaterials
• Porous metallic biomaterials
• Osseointegration
• Metal/tissue interfaces
• Computer-aided design of metallic implants and prosthesis
• Biomechanical design and characterization
• New trends in metallic biomaterials

Prof. Dr. Tullio Monetta
Dr. Annalisa Acquesta
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Biomechanics biomechanics	-	1.5	2021	27.4 Days	CHF 1000
Journal of Functional Biomaterials jfb	5.0	4.6	2010	16.6 Days	CHF 2700
Materials materials	3.1	5.8	2008	13.9 Days	CHF 2600
Metals metals	2.6	4.9	2011	17.8 Days	CHF 2600

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