About this Research Topic
This Research Topic welcomes original results addressing the latest trends and perspectives in Bioceramics for Health.
The Research Topic is aligned with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Ceramics in Medicine – BIOCERAMICS32, held in Venezia Mestre, Italy, on September 20th-23rd, 2022. Contributions are encouraged from conference delegates whose research falls within the scope of the Research Topic.
Ceramic materials and glasses are since decades intensively explored for their potential of application in medicine, particularly for the regeneration of hard tissues such as bones and teeth. Bioceramics can be obtained in a variety of compositions, and numerous technological processes have been developed to obtain 3-D porous scaffolds and bone cements intended to solve still unmet clinical needs in orthopedics, spinal and cranio-maxillofacial surgery, and dentistry. More recently bioceramics are also investigated for wider applications in nanomedicine, soft tissue healing, skin care and cosmetics, for which the development of functional ceramic nanoparticles is steadily increasing, with a particular focus also on the possibility to prevent infections and biofilm formation on implanted devices, which is among the most serious concerns in medicine today. Recent societal needs point up the great relevance of environmental safety and sustain so that efforts to include the bioceramic development and processing in virtuous cycles of Circular Economy, as well as studies addressed to investigate the interaction of ceramic nanoparticles with various physiological and environmental systems, are steadily increasing.
In this broad scenario, the present Issue accepts contributions pinning on bioceramics and bioglasses development for wide application in health, spanning from nanoparticles, 3-D scaffolds and injectable devices, up to in vitro/in vivo studies addressed to evaluate the interaction of bioceramics with living tissues, with the purpose to find physicochemical mechanisms and/or appropriate functionalization procedures enabling cell instruction, bacterial inactivation and, also, to evaluate toxic effects related to nanoparticles accumulation in the body and in the environment.
This multidisciplinary Research Topic aims to gather research from material chemistry, engineering, nanotechnology, biology and medicine.
We invite authors to contribute with reviews, mini-reviews or original research articles on bioceramics in health, that address topics including, but not limited to the following:
-Bioceramics and bioglasses in regenerative medicine
-Structural ceramics for orthopedics and dentistry
-Cell-material interaction and cell co-cultures
-Drug delivery systems and smart functionalizations
-3-D printing of bioceramics, bioactive hydrogels, ceramic pastes and cements
-Nanosafety applied to nano-bioceramics
-Ceramic devices for intensive care: biosensors, smart filters
-Ceramics for skin care and soft tissue applications
-Smart surfaces and antibacterial approaches
-Development of bioceramics according to Circular Economy concepts
The Research Topic is aligned with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Ceramics in Medicine – BIOCERAMICS32, held in Venezia Mestre, Italy, on September 20th-23rd, 2022. Contributions are encouraged from conference delegates whose research falls within the scope of the Research Topic.
Ceramic materials and glasses are since decades intensively explored for their potential of application in medicine, particularly for the regeneration of hard tissues such as bones and teeth. Bioceramics can be obtained in a variety of compositions, and numerous technological processes have been developed to obtain 3-D porous scaffolds and bone cements intended to solve still unmet clinical needs in orthopedics, spinal and cranio-maxillofacial surgery, and dentistry. More recently bioceramics are also investigated for wider applications in nanomedicine, soft tissue healing, skin care and cosmetics, for which the development of functional ceramic nanoparticles is steadily increasing, with a particular focus also on the possibility to prevent infections and biofilm formation on implanted devices, which is among the most serious concerns in medicine today. Recent societal needs point up the great relevance of environmental safety and sustain so that efforts to include the bioceramic development and processing in virtuous cycles of Circular Economy, as well as studies addressed to investigate the interaction of ceramic nanoparticles with various physiological and environmental systems, are steadily increasing.
In this broad scenario, the present Issue accepts contributions pinning on bioceramics and bioglasses development for wide application in health, spanning from nanoparticles, 3-D scaffolds and injectable devices, up to in vitro/in vivo studies addressed to evaluate the interaction of bioceramics with living tissues, with the purpose to find physicochemical mechanisms and/or appropriate functionalization procedures enabling cell instruction, bacterial inactivation and, also, to evaluate toxic effects related to nanoparticles accumulation in the body and in the environment.
This multidisciplinary Research Topic aims to gather research from material chemistry, engineering, nanotechnology, biology and medicine.
We invite authors to contribute with reviews, mini-reviews or original research articles on bioceramics in health, that address topics including, but not limited to the following:
-Bioceramics and bioglasses in regenerative medicine
-Structural ceramics for orthopedics and dentistry
-Cell-material interaction and cell co-cultures
-Drug delivery systems and smart functionalizations
-3-D printing of bioceramics, bioactive hydrogels, ceramic pastes and cements
-Nanosafety applied to nano-bioceramics
-Ceramic devices for intensive care: biosensors, smart filters
-Ceramics for skin care and soft tissue applications
-Smart surfaces and antibacterial approaches
-Development of bioceramics according to Circular Economy concepts
Keywords: ceramics, scaffolds, nanoparticles, functionalization, tissue regeneration, cell-material interaction, nanomedicine
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