As a representative paradigm of multidisciplinary science, biomedical engineering demonstrates its huge compatibility, tremendous vitality and enormous potential in many related fields of biomechanics, biomaterials, biomedical polymers, functional nanomaterials and so on. It is well-known that composites leading a bright future of modern materials systems have been widely used in various vital engineering fields. In particular, advanced biomimetic composites (ABC) featured with excellent mechanical performance and multifunctional integration have become competitive and considerable choices for customized biomedical applications (CBA), such as 3D printed implants, wound healing, bioactive composites. The remarkable thing is that the ABC not only provides universal and effective carriers proof-of-concepts toward CBA, but also can serve as the ideal and perdurable substitute of many organisms.
Despite the fact, conventional composites are constantly improved to meet the emerging demands of biomedical engineering and related fields. There is still a broad space worth exploring for existing composite systems, which ranges over design methods, preparation approaches, simulation techniques and model buildings. How to develop novel design strategies to achieve next-generation ABC toward CBA (ABC2CBA) is an open challenge. Fortunately, typical bio-prototypes in nature always provide abundant inspiration for scientists and engineers to solve complex engineering problems. It could provide a unique point-cut for researchers involving biologists, biomimeticians, surgeries, chemists, physicists, materials scientists and engineers together to figure out the fascinating characteristics of natural composites and gain insights into the unravel mechanism of their hyper-normal performance. Furthermore, the rendered inspiration could be powerful guidance for the innovative solution of common puzzles of advanced composites and biomedical engineering.
This Research Topic (ABC2CBA) is dedicated to highlighting recent breakthroughs and developments in the field of biomedical engineering for customized applications, with a special focus on bioinspired design strategies to accelerate the discovery of new-generation biomimetic composites. We call for contributions related to the theoretical, modeling, and experimental aspects of ABC from the scientific community engaging in transdisciplinary research.
Keywords: bioinspired design, biomimetic composites, nanomaterials, biomedical engineering
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