3D Printing and Bioprinting of Polymer Systems as the Future of Regenerative Medicine
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 255
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomedical materials; natural and synthetic polymers; polymers synthesis; polymers characterization; polymers degradation; composites for biomedical applications; polyurethanes for biomedical applications; biomaterials; polyurethane biomaterials; polyurethane composites for biomedical field; tissue scaffolds; tissue enginnering; fused deposition modelling; bioprinting; hydrogels; wound dressings
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The XXI century is giving us exceptional access to a variety of polymeric materials, blends and composites that are applicable as functional materials in the biomedical field. The fast development of technologies, such as 3D printing and bioprinting, and their adjustment to medical needs allow us to design 3D, 4D or even 5D (!) constructs. These constructs may serve as scaffolds for soft and hard tissues, wound dressings, vascular grafts, artificial tendons and ligaments, urinary tract grafts, external prostheses and stabilizers, 3D-printed anatomical models and much more. The scope of 3D-printed and bioprinted polymeric systems is expanding with every year of application in medical research. Due to the growing interest in this field, we would like to gather and demonstrate the exceptional potential of polymeric materials combined with 3D-printing and bioprinting technologies as a future of medicine. You are welcome to submit all types of manuscripts within the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Iga Carayon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural and synthetic polymers, blends, composites, and nanocomposites
- 3D printing
- fused deposition modeling (FDM)
- bioprinting
- bioink
- hydrogel
- tissue scaffolds
- tissue engineering
- regenerative medicine
- external prostheses and stabilizers
- anatomical 3D models
