Functional Biomaterials for Skin Wound Healing
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 69
Special Issue Editor
Interests: spinal cord injury; wound healing; stem cells; bioengineering; self-assembled nanoparticles
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Dear Colleagues,
Chronic wounds are characterized as non-healing wounds due to poor angiogenesis, impaired vascularization, collagen formation, and dysfunctional fibroblasts and keratinocytes in the hypoxic wound environment. These chronic wounds initially result from pathological conditions, such as diabetes, neuronal trauma (CNS injuries), and burn injuries. They are secondarily affected by several bacterial populations. Recently, there has been much debate regarding bio-inspired functional biomaterials and their direct and indirect role in skin wound healing and bacterial disinfection. In this Special Issue, we will focus on the applications of these functional biomaterials in skin wound healing and study their responses under challenging pathological conditions using in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo systems. Due to the wide scope of these biomaterials, contributions relating to biomaterials, incorporated biomaterials (e.g., skin substitute), CNS injuries, tissue engineering, and biomimetics are also welcome.
Dr. Suneel Kumar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomaterials
- nanoparticles
- spinal cord injury
- traumatic brain injury
- pressure ulcer
- wound healing
- diabetes
- burn injury
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