Dear Colleagues,

There is a growing interest in generating artificial tissues as biological substitutes in regenerative medicine applications and nanomedicine. Efforts have been made to design advanced biofunctional systems by combining cells (e.g., stem cells, differentiated cells, induced pluripotent stem cells) and biomaterials. It is well known that cells recognize and interact with biomaterials in different forms (e.g., nanoparticles, 3D scaffold, coating, film) through a plethora of plasma membrane proteins that activate a signal cascade, steering cells toward a selected behavior. Therefore, developing innovative biomaterials with peculiar physicochemical properties, focusing on specific architectures/porosity, is instrumental to tuning cell fate. Moreover, a specific biodecoration of a material with biomolecules/drugs could further enhance the bioactivity of a material itself, contributing to improved cellular response.

This Special Issue on “Cell–Material Interactions 2021” focuses on several aspects of cell/biomaterial interaction. Herein, we invite contributions of reviews and/or original papers reporting recent efforts in the field of biomaterial applications.

Dr. Silvia Panseri
Dr. Monica Montesi
Guest Editors
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