3D Printing of Functional Biomaterials and Nanocomposites
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 16446
Special Issue Editor
Interests: 3D and 4D printing; bioprinting; nanocomposite biomaterials; nanoparticles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Considerable attention has been paid to 3D printing (additive manufacturing, AM) as a powerful technology of manufacturing customized products and complex biomimetic 3D constructs. In the past decade, AM has experienced a tremendous development and evolved into advanced fabrication techniques such as bioprinting, 4D printing, freeform, and multimaterial 3D printing. These new approaches have been successfully used to manufacture various complex structures, including biosensors, vascularized networks mimicking living tissues or soft robots. Such advancements in fabrication techniques require the design and development of novel printable functional biomaterials and composites, e.g., cellularized inks, shape memory, and conductive materials.
In this Special Issue, we invite you to submit original research papers and comprehensive reviews on 3D printing of functional biomaterials and nanocomposites. Specific topics include but are not limited to:
- Novel 3D printing, bioprinting, and post-printing techniques for fabrication of functional structures, e.g., freeform printing technique;
- 3D printing of functionally graded and anisotropic structures;
- Printable composites of polymers and nanomaterials (nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanowires);
- 4D printing;
- Fabrication of bioinspired 3D structures;
- 3D printing of stimuli-responsive materials;
- Antimicrobial 3D printing inks;
- 3D printing of wound healing dressings and drug delivery systems;
- 3D fabrication of functional scaffolds for tissue engineering.
Dr. Daria Podstawczyk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 3D printing
- Bioprinting
- 4D printing
- Hydrogels
- Nanocomposites
- Nanomaterials
- Antimicrobial
- Stimuli-responsive
- Tissue engineering
- Gradient
- Biomimicry
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