Additive Manufacturing towards the Design of 3D Advanced Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering (Second Volume)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 352
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymer based composites; nanocomposites; additive manufacturing; fused deposition modelling; stereolithography; finite element analysis; bone; dentine; scaffolds; prostheses
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Interests: design for additive manufacturing; generative design; biomimetic/bioinspired design; reverse engineering; design methods; creative design; mechanical analysis; modeling and simulation; biomechanics; scaffold design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The design of 3D advanced scaffolds for tissue engineering is possible using innovative and creative engineering methods based on additive manufacturing (AM). This approach allows the generation of devices with complex architectural features and tailored functional properties, meeting design requirements and constraints. A variety of biocompatible materials can be processed through AM, such as degradable and non-degradable polymers, natural and synthetic materials, composites, metals and ceramics, also including the combination of different materials.
In this context, conceptual design can be seen as the first phase of design. Specifically, conceptualization and conceptual design may be considered as a phase of project planning, involving the production of ideas, and the advantages and disadvantages of implementing them.
The idea generation process is employed to find solutions to problems (i.e., ideation and concept generation).
Thus, the first phase of a scaffold design considers conceptual design as an integrated set of ideas and concepts focused on its structure, function, and behavior, representing a crucial step in the field of regenerative engineering, which involves the development of 3D structures (i.e., scaffolds) with cells and tissue-inducing factors.
Advanced strategies involve novel and creative engineering techniques which are able to systematically generate all possible design configurations, in order to meet design requirements and constraints.
On the other hand, it is also well known that finite element analysis and numerical techniques play an important role in the design process and represent the core of different disciplines.
Accordingly, this Special Issue is aimed at presenting the current advances in the design of 3D advanced scaffolds for soft and hard tissue regeneration.
With a focus on the design of 3D additive-manufactured scaffolds for tissue engineering, potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design methods
- Conceptual design
- Creative design
- Design of experiments
- Design for additive manufacturing
- Topology optimization
- Generative design
- 3D/4D Printing
- Bioprinting
- Biomanufacturing and biofabrication
- Lattice structures
- Biomimetics and bioinspiration
- Computational design
- Artificial intelligence methods
- Computer-aided design
- Computer-aided engineering
- Reverse engineering
- Finite element analysis
- Modeling and simulation
- Cell–material interaction
Dr. Roberto De Santis
Prof. Dr. Antonio Gloria
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- design for additive manufacturing
- generative design
- topology optimization
- modeling and simulation
- 3D/4D Printing
- bioprinting
- biomanufacturing and biofabrication
- biomimetics and bioinspiration
- artificial intelligence methods
- cell–material interaction
