Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Bioactive Materials, Properties, and Applications

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry and Letters in Applied NanoBioScience and Co-Editor in Chief of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He is also a member of the Editoral Board for several other journals, including American Journal of Nanomaterials, Journal of Nanotechnology in Diagnosis and Treatment and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research. In addition, he has served as Guest Editor for several other established journals, including Elsevier’s International Journal of Pharmaceutics. He has published 17 books previously with Elsevier as well as over 150 peer reviewed papers and 20 book chapters. Valentina Grumezescu is a Scientific Researcher at the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma & Radiation Physics, Magurele, Romania. She is an experienced researcher in the field of fabrication of biomedical thin coatings by laser processing. She has published over 40 research and review papers in the field of nanobiomaterials and several book chapters on the application of laser processing in biomedical field. She is also the assistant editor of the journal Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry.

• 1. Inorganic fibers for biomedical engineering applications2. Hybrid composites: a revolutionary trend in biomedical engineering3. Inorganic and organic-inorganic composite nanoparticles with potential biomedical applications: synthesis challenges for enhanced performance4. Modeling composites in biomedical engineering5. Characterisation of porous coatings obtained via plasma electrolytic oxidation6. Surface-modified cellulose in biomedical engineering7. Modification of biodegradable materials by natural biocidal agents8. Matrix resistance stress reduction –prerequisite for achieving higher concentration of immobilized cells9. Graphene: promising nanoplatform for biomedical applications10. Carbon nanotube-based matrices for tisue engineering11. Mesoporous bioactive glasses for biomedical composites12. Fiber-reinforced polymer: applications in biomedical engineering13. Polymer-matrix composites for rapid tooling in clinical dentistry14. Trend of nanofibers in dental regeneration: perspectives and challenges15. Gold nanocomposites for biomedical applications16. Clinical applications of bioactive materials17. Silver nanoparticles as unique nanodrugs