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NanoBio Australia 2014 Biomaterials Science Poster Prize Winners

Biomaterials Science was delighted to award Poster Prizes at the NanoBio Australia 2014 conference held at  The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia on 6th – 10th July 2014. The winner was Young-Seon Ko and the Runner-up was Ms Liyu Chen.
Young-Seon Ko and Liyu Chen receiving their poster prize.
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Top 10 Most-accessed Biomaterials Science articles – Q1 2014

This month sees the following articles in Biomaterials Science that are in the top ten most accessed from January – March:

Stimuli-responsive functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug release in response to various biological stimuli
Xin Chen, Xiaoyu Cheng, Alexander H. Soeriyadi, Sharon M. Sagnella, Xun Lu, Jason A. Scott, Stuart B. Lowe, Maria Kavallaris and J. Justin Gooding
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 121-130
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60148J

Hyaluronic acid hydrogel stiffness and oxygen tension affect cancer cell fate and endothelial sprouting
Yu-I Shen, Hasan E. Abaci, Yoni Krupski, Lien-Chun Weng, Jason A. Burdick and Sharon Gerecht
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 655-665
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60274E

Hydrogel scaffolds as in vitro models to study fibroblast activation in wound healing and disease
Megan E. Smithmyer, Lisa A. Sawicki and April M. Kloxin
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 634-650
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60319A

Fabrication of zeolite–polymer composite nanofibers for removal of uremic toxins from kidney failure patients
Koki Namekawa, Makoto Tokoro Schreiber, Takao Aoyagi and Mitsuhiro Ebara
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 674-679
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60263J

Enzyme responsive materials: design strategies and future developments
Mischa Zelzer, Simon J. Todd, Andrew R. Hirst, Tom O. McDonald and Rein V. Ulijn
Biomater. Sci., 2013,1, 11-39
DOI: 10.1039/C2BM00041E

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for the design of smart delivery nanodevices
Montserrat Colilla, Blanca González and María Vallet-Regí
Biomater. Sci., 2013,1, 114-134
DOI: 10.1039/C2BM00085G

Smart hydrogels as functional biomimetic systems
Han L. Lim, Yongsung Hwang, Mrityunjoy Kar and Shyni Varghese
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 603-618
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60288E

Non-eroding drug-releasing implants with ordered nanoporous and nanotubular structures: concepts for controlling drug release
Moom Sinn Aw, Mima Kurian and Dusan Losic
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 10-34
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60196J

Fracture-based micro- and nanofabrication for biological applications
Byoung Choul Kim, Christopher Moraes, Jiexi Huang, M. D. Thouless and Shuichi Takayama
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 288-296
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60276A

Nanoscale semiconductor devices as new biomaterials
John Zimmerman, Ramya Parameswaran and Bozhi Tian
Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 619-626
DOI: 10.1039/C3BM60280J

Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.

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Third Symposium on Innovative Polymers for Controlled Delivery Sponsorship

We are pleased to announce that The 3rd Symposium on Innovative Polymers for Controlled Delivery (SIPCD 2014)

In Honor of Prof. Dr. Jan Feijen’s 70th Birthday

will be held on September 16-19, 2014 in the Garden Hotel, Suzhou, China

The symposium is co-organized by Soochow University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. SIPCD 2014 will welcome approximately 450 delegates, with 31 invited lectures and 220 poster presentations. The whole symposium is organized in one single session. It will also include a stimulating Debate on Drug Delivery.

Invited speakers include Biomaterials Science board members Jianjun Cheng and Jun Wang. A full list of International Plenary Speakers can be found here.

Please see the conference website to register your attendance or submit an abstract.

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