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Green Biomaterials provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the development of alternative green and sustainable technologies to synthesize, prepare and modify a wide range of bioactive materials. The scope of Green Biomaterials is based on two important definitions, (1) green chemistry and (2) biomaterials. The definition of green chemistry is proposed by Anastas and Warner (Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, P T Anastas and J C Warner, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998), and the definition of biomaterials is as a substance that has been engineered to take a form which, alone or as part of a complex system, is used to direct, by control of interactions with components of living systems, the course of any therapeutic or diagnostic procedure. Green Biomaterials is at the frontiers of this continuously-evolving interdisciplinary science and publishes research that attempts to reduce the environmental impact of the chemical enterprise by developing a technology base that is inherently non-toxic to living things and the environment. Submissions on all aspects of research relating to the endeavour are welcome.
The scope of the journal covers the wide range of physical, chemical, and biological sciences that underpin the design of green synthesized/prepared/modified biomaterials and the clinical/industrial disciplines in which they are used. These sciences include organic (natural and synthetic forms) and inorganic (metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), MXene, metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs), bioactive glasses, layered double hydroxides (LDHs), etc.) (nano)materials, the synthesis and characterization process, drug/gene vector/carrier design, tissue engineering responses to the interference of the green components, the biology of the host response, immunology and toxicology and self-assembly at the nanoscale. The journal is relevant to areas covering all of the industrial and clinical applications including, but not limited to, water treatment, desalination, catalysis, photocatalysis, cancer diagnosis and therapy, implantable devices, drug delivery systems, gene delivery systems, bionanotechnology, biosensor, and tissue engineering.
The scope of Green Biomaterials includes:
- Hypothesis-driven design of green synthesized and/or modified and/or prepared biomaterials
- Designing studies to define the greenness factors and their impacts on the biomaterial's performance
- Design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced materials using green and environmentally-friendly precursors
- Green synthesized biomaterial mechanical characterization and modeling at all scales
- Molecular, statistical, and other types of modeling applied to capture green biomaterial behavior
- Interactions of biological species with defined surfaces of the green biomaterials
- Combinatorial approaches to green biomaterial development
- Structural biology as it relates structure to function for biologically and naturally derived materials that have applications as medical material, or as it aids in understanding the biological response to biomaterials
- Methods for green biomaterial characterization, including novel methods to define the greenness factors
- Processing of green biomaterials to achieve specific functionality
- The role of green synthesized materials in drug/gene delivery, biosensor, tissue engineering, and other biomedical applications
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of biomaterials
- The role of green synthesized materials in the CRISPR delivery and gene editing procedure
- Green materials development for arrayed genomic and proteomic screening
To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.
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