Materials Today Bio is a multidisciplinary journal focused on the interface between biology and materials science, chemistry, physics, engineering, and medicine. From the design and assembly of novel structures, their functionalization and interaction with biological systems to bioimaging, therapies and diagnostics in healthcare, the journal will capture the most exciting advances and discoveries within this field.
Part of the Materials Today family, Materials Today Bio offers authors rigorous peer review, rapid decisions, and high visibility. The editors welcome comprehensive articles, short communications and reviews on topics including but not limited to:
• Biomaterials
• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
• Cell encapsulation and cell engineering
• Biomolecular and biomacromolecular Engineering
• Biofabrication
• Biohybrid Materials
• Nanomedicine and bionanotechnology
• Biosensors including BioMEMS, BioNEMS
• Lab-on-a chip and organ-on-a chip
• Actuators and soft/bioelectronics
• Bioimaging and diagnosis
• In vitro biological models
• Biological soft and biological matter
• Hydrogels
• Drug and gene delivery
• Biopolymers
• Bioinspired surfaces and interfaces
• Synthetic biology
• Bio-based materials
Materials Today Bio sits within Elsevier's biomaterials science portfolio alongside Biomaterials, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications and Biomaterials and Biomaterials and Biosystems.
Editorial board
Editor in Chief
- João Mano PhD
University of Aveiro Chemistry Department, Aveiro, Portugal
Editorial Board
- Insung S. Choi PhD
Korea Advanced Institute of Science And Technology Department of Chemistry, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of - Luisa De Cola PhD
University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France - Changyou Gao PhD
Zhejiang University Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Hangzhou, China - Ali Khademhosseini PhD
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States - Pavel Levkin PhD
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany - Bin Liu PhD
National University of Singapore Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Singapore, Singapore - Phillip Messersmith PhD
University of California Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Berkeley, California, United States - David Mooney PhD
Harvard University Mooney Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Lorenzo Moroni PhD
Maastricht University Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht, Netherlands - Fergal O'Brien PhD
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Department of Anatomy, Dublin, Ireland - Richard O.C. Oreffo PhD
University of Southampton Institute of Developmental Science, Southampton, United Kingdom - Kun Qian PhD
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, China - Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello PhD
University of Valladolid Bioforge, Valladolid, Spain - Ana Cecília Roque PhD
New University of Lisbon Department of Chemistry, Caparica, Portugal - Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez PhD
University of Glasgow Division of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom - Tatiana Segura PhD
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States - Martina Stenzel PhD
University of New South Wales Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, Sydney, Australia - Emmanuel Stratakis PhD
Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Irakleio, Greece - Shoji Takeuchi PhD
The University of Tokyo Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Micro-Nano Methods, Meguro-Ku, Japan - Hao Wang PhD
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China - Shutao Wang PhD
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Beijing, China - Anthony S. Weiss PhD
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Fu-Jian Xu PhD
Beijing University of Chemical Technology Centre of Advanced Elastomer Materials, Beijing, China - Xian-Zheng Zhang PhD
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymer Materials of Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China