Dear Colleagues,

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary discipline at the intersection of materials science, engineering, and biology to regenerate various types of biological tissues. Advances in scaffold-based tissue engineering continue in response to the growing need for tissue replacement caused by diseases, trauma, or cancers. Despite the explosion of work on the development of synthetic tissue scaffolds, remarkably few have been translated to the clinic. A significant obstacle to translation is that existing scaffolds lack adequate mechanical properties while maintaining biological complexities.

This Special Issue encourages researchers to present their studies concerning the improvement in the biomechanical properties of synthetic tissue scaffolds through innovative approaches in materials science, structural design, or in silico methods.

It is our pleasure to invite all of you to submit your research to this Special Issue. Research Articles, Communications, and Review Papers are welcome!

Dr. Ali Entezari
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Functional Biomaterials is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• tissue engineering
• tissue scaffolds
• numerical modeling
• biomaterials
• scaffold design
• structural optimization