Nanostructured Biomaterials

Edited by: Oh Hyeong Kwon, Kumoh National Institute of Technology

Nanostructured material technologies can be used to fabricate high-performance biomaterials with tailored physical, chemical, and biological properties. Nanostructural control is found to be a key factor in tailoring the bioavailability of the materials. They are an area of interest for emerging biomedical technologies such as scaffolds, tissue restoration, and controlled drug delivery system. Nanostructured material in tissue engineering explores the fabrication and modification of a variety of nanomaterials and the use of these materials across a range of tissue engineering applications.
This collection in Biomaterials Research on "nanostructured biomaterials" covers fabrication, characterization of nanostructured materials (nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanowires, nanoporous materials, nanostructured devices) and applications for biomedical and tissue engineering fields.

New articles in the collection will appear here as they are published!

Content Type:Research Article
Polyion complex micelle formed from tetraphenylethene containing block copolymer
Polymeric micelles attract great attention in drug delivery and therapeutics. Various types of block copolymers have been designed for the application in biomedical fields. If we can introduce additional funct...
Authors:Seong Min Lee and Woo-Dong Jang
Citation:Biomaterials Research 2017 21:17
Published on: 10 October 2017
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Modification and optimization of electrospun gelatin sheets by electron beam irradiation for soft tissue engineering
Crosslinked gelatin nanofibers are one of the widely used scaffolds for soft tissue engineering. However, modifying the biodegradation rate of chemically crosslinked gelatin is necessary to facilitate cell mig...
Authors:Jae Baek Lee, Young-Gwang Ko, Donghwan Cho, Won Ho Park and Oh Hyeong Kwon
Citation:Biomaterials Research 2017 21:14
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Anticancer activity of drug-loaded calcium phosphate nanocomposites against human osteosarcoma
Calcium phosphate (CaP) based nanoparticles are considered to be ideal drug carriers for delivery of anticancer drugs because of their excellent biocompatibility and pH responsiveness. However, CaP nanoparticl...
Authors:Kyoung Dan Son and Young-Jin Kim
Citation:Biomaterials Research 2017 21:13
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Silk fibroin/hydroxyapatite composite hydrogel induced by gamma-ray irradiation for bone tissue engineering
In this study, silk fibroin (SF) composite hydrogels containing hydroxyapatite (HAP) nanoparticles (NPs) for bone tissue engineering were fabricated using gamma-ray (γ-ray) irradiation treatment. During the ir...
Authors:Min Hee Kim, Beom Su Kim, Jun Lee, Donghwan Cho, Oh Hyeong Kwon and Won Ho Park
Citation:Biomaterials Research 2017 21:12
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Lamination of microfibrous PLGA fabric by electrospinning a layer of collagen-hydroxyapatite composite nanofibers for bone tissue engineering
To mimic the muscle inspired cells adhesion through proteins secretion, the lamination of collagen–hydroxyapatite nanorod (nHA) composite nanofibers has been carried out successfully on polydopamine (PDA)-coat...
Authors:Gi-Wan Kwon, Kailash Chandra Gupta, Kyung-Hye Jung and Inn-Kyu Kang
Citation:Biomaterials Research 2017 21:11
Published on: 13 June 2017
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