The disease cure and quality enhancement of illnesses need a progressing methodology to design interdisciplinary smart materials, which are compatible with biological systems. Biological stimuli-responsive systems have attracted increasing attention in recent years because they can meet many of the needs of applications related to the human body that cannot be met by traditional systems. The safe and efficient drug delivery, prevention and diagnostic approaches, treatment, and regeneration of tissues could be implemented by the responsive structures and configurations, developed through the engineered methods. Smart materials, including all materials used in medical applications, dentistry, and other related fields, can significantly react in a controlled manner against external stimuli such as stress, temperature, humidity, pH, Electrical or magnetic fields, light, etc. Chemically responsive compounds are of interest in all fields of medicine, biotechnology, and health.
The purpose of this Research Topic is to collect the original articles and/or review articles, related to the field of Biological Stimulus-responsive systems including organic, inorganic, composite, and polymeric compounds, covering their physicochemical properties and evaluation of their biological responses, as well as applications covered including tissue engineering, wound healing, antimicrobial substances, drug or gene delivery in the fields of medicine, dentistry, biotechnology, and health.
Articles on the following Biological Stimulus-responsive systems, and their applications, can be included but are not limited to:
• Wound healing
• Tissue engineering
• Nanoparticles
• Drug and gene delivery
• Smart coatings
• Antimicrobial materials
The disease cure and quality enhancement of illnesses need a progressing methodology to design interdisciplinary smart materials, which are compatible with biological systems. Biological stimuli-responsive systems have attracted increasing attention in recent years because they can meet many of the needs of applications related to the human body that cannot be met by traditional systems. The safe and efficient drug delivery, prevention and diagnostic approaches, treatment, and regeneration of tissues could be implemented by the responsive structures and configurations, developed through the engineered methods. Smart materials, including all materials used in medical applications, dentistry, and other related fields, can significantly react in a controlled manner against external stimuli such as stress, temperature, humidity, pH, Electrical or magnetic fields, light, etc. Chemically responsive compounds are of interest in all fields of medicine, biotechnology, and health.
The purpose of this Research Topic is to collect the original articles and/or review articles, related to the field of Biological Stimulus-responsive systems including organic, inorganic, composite, and polymeric compounds, covering their physicochemical properties and evaluation of their biological responses, as well as applications covered including tissue engineering, wound healing, antimicrobial substances, drug or gene delivery in the fields of medicine, dentistry, biotechnology, and health.
Articles on the following Biological Stimulus-responsive systems, and their applications, can be included but are not limited to:
• Wound healing
• Tissue engineering
• Nanoparticles
• Drug and gene delivery
• Smart coatings
• Antimicrobial materials