Electrospun Membranes for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 4056
Special Issue Editors
Interests: scaffolds for regenerative medicine; electrospinning; thermally induced phase separation; hydrogels; bioprinting; organ-on-chip; bionanocomposites
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted to “Electrospun Membranes for Biomedical Applications”, including biopolymer blends and nanocomposites. Electrospinning is a versatile process technology, exploited for the production of fibers with varying diameters, ranging from nano- to micro-scale. The unique properties of electrospun mats make them a potential candidate for a plethora of commercial applications in medical fields such as drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, biosensing, and components for microfluidic circuitry.
Therefore, papers are sought that deal with the relationships between processing, structure, morphology, and properties in electrospun polymeric membranes, either providing new insights on the interaction between membranes and cells or investigating hybrid technologies that include electrospun membranes, leading to improved performance in tissue engineering, drug release, and biosensing applications. The latest research dealing with special biomedical application fields and/or proposing novel characterization protocols will also be of great interest.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Processing–properties–structure relationships of electrospun membranes for biomedical applications;
- Drug release from electrospun membranes;
- Electrospun membranes for lab-on-a-chip devices;
- Electrospun membranes for biosensing;
- Bulk and surface properties of electrospun membranes;
- Effect of blends/filler on electrospun membranes.
Dr. Francesco Lopresti
Prof. Dr. Francesco Carfì Pavia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Processing–properties–structure relationships
- Drug release
- Tissue engineering
- Lab-on-a-chip
- Biosensing
- Biomechanical properties
- Degradation
- Polymer blends
- Bionanocomposites
