Congratulations to Jinzi Zheng from the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada, who won the Biomaterials Science poster prize at the recent NanoBio 2012 conference in Seattle, USA.
Jinzi Zheng’s winning poster was titled “PET/CT Imaging of the Heterogeneous Distribution of [64Cu]-Iodine Liposomes in Orthotopic Mouse Cervical Tumors”.
NanoBio 2012 was held 23rd – 26th July 2012.
Biomaterials Science has been featured in the Japanese magazine Kagaku Chemistry. If you’re not familiar with it its described as “One of the most widely read monthly magazines in Japan. With sound popularity among students, researchers and engineers of chemistry for over 40 years, “Kagaku”(Chemistry) has been addressing topics on chemistry and related fields from a unique viewpoint. Bearing the slogan ‘Quality content with comprehensible description’, it not only introduces cutting-edge studies, but also tackles environmental issues, chemical education and science policies, while gaining a high reputation as one of the most inspiring magazines in chemistry”
(If you click on the images you should be able to zoom in and see the text clearly.)
Biomaterials Science is now accepting submissions. All articles will be free to access until the end of 2014. Please contact the editorial office if you have any questions about the journal.
Don’t forget you can Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter to keep up with the latest news.
If you want to find out about the first articles once they’re published online why not sign up for the Biomaterials Science RSS feed or Table of Contents alert.
I’ve been having a look at some of the reviews we’ve published in the RSC materials journals and thinking about why we publish review articles. Journals publish different types of reviews. Many are in-depth critical overviews of a topic, others act as tutorials for people moving into a new areas or learning new techniques, some focus specifically on applications or highlight just the most important developments over the last couple of years. I’d be interested to hear what you think makes up a good review. For our part we see reviews as an integral part of our journals and we hope they provide a great overview of the latest trends, opinion, and groundbreaking research for our readers. If you’re interested Biomaterials Science will publish just two broad types of review: reviews and mini-reviews.
Below I’ve gathered together a selection of reviews on biomaterials and materials interfacing with biology. Hopefully this will give you a flavour of the reviews published by RSC journals in this area. The articles are all free to download until 3rd September. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Feature Article
Interactions of cells with silk surfaces
Aldo Leal-Egaña and Thomas Scheibel
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 14330-14336
Frontier
Microengineered physiological biomimicry: Organs-on-Chips
Dongeun Huh , Yu-suke Torisawa , Geraldine A. Hamilton , Hyun Jung Kim and Donald E. Ingber
Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 2156-2164
Critical Reviews
Designer nanomaterials using chiral self-assembling peptide systems and their emerging benefit for society
Zhongli Luo and Shuguang Zhang
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 4736-4754
Click here to expand the list of reviews
If you’re a regular visitor to the Biomaterials Science blog you’ve probably already seen last weeks ‘Call for Papers on Biomimetic Materials’. Hopefully we’ll be able to highlight some interesting Biomaterials Science articles on this area soon– but in the meantime here are a few articles from Journal of Materials Chemistry and Soft Matter which I hope you’ll enjoy. They’re all free to read until 23rd August.
Opinion
Innovation through imitation: biomimetic, bioinspired and biokleptic research
Andrea E. Rawlings, Jonathan P. Bramble and Sarah S. Staniland, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 2675-2679
Feature Article
Biomimetic composites and stem cells interaction for bone and cartilage tissue regeneration
N. Naveena, J. Venugopal, R. Rajeswari, S. Sundarrajan, R. Sridhar, M. Shayanti, S. Narayanan and S. Ramakrishna, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 5239-5253
Review
Proteins in biomimetic membranes: promises and facts
Renate L. C. Naumann, Christoph Nowak and Wolfgang Knoll, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9535-9548
Click here to see all the articles
Biomaterials Science invites you to submit your next high impact article on ‘Biomimetic Materials’ to the journal.
Publishing only very high quality articles, the journal will cover the fundamental science of biomaterials though to their biomedical applications, including ‘biomimetic materials’.
Articles will be free to access* until the end of 2014 giving your article the widest possible audience.
We encourage you to support Biomaterials Science and not-for-profit publishing by contributing to the journal. You can find our online submission system at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bmsci
Don’t forget to keep up with the latest news from Biomaterials Science you can Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter or sign up for the newsletter.
Sign up for the Biomaterials Science RSS feed or Table of Contents alert to find out about the first articles once they’re published online.
*Individuals can access the content by signing up for an RSC Publishing Personal Account. Existing institutional RSC journal subscribers, with registered IP, have automatic access. Other institutions can register for free access.
1. What led you to specialise in biomaterials?
For the past 25 years, I have been exploring the nucleic acids using organic chemistry, biochemistry and computational chemistry. The ability of DNA to weave together and bind other molecules, which allow it to act as a scaffold for complex Nano machinery, has always fascinated me. Recent progress in DNA origami further motivated me to employ DNA as a construction material for the supra-molecular ‘bottom-up’ engineering in nano-sciences.
2. What projects are you working on at the moment?
My research is centered on the chemical biology of nucleic acids and integrates DNA nanotechnology and creation of artificial genetic switch. Nanotechnology group uses DNA origami techniques to build nano- and meso-sized structures to acquire vital mechanistic knowledge that could be exploited in gene regulation.
We are also developing sequence-specific DNA binding Pyrrole-Imidazole polyamides as artificial genetic `ON` and `OFF` switch. Based on our recent promising results we are establishing a novel chemical approach to selectively and epigenetically induce pluripotency in somatic cells with our designed molecules.
Prof. Giuseppe Battaglia, Editorial Board member
Giuseppe, or as most people call him, Beppe, obtained his “Laura” in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Palermo (Italy), followed by a period of industrial research at the ICI Strategic Technology Group (now part of AkzoNobel) at Wilton, UK. In 2002, he joined Prof. Anthony Ryan’s research group for a PhD in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield (UoS). In 2006 immediately after submitting his PhD thesis, Beppe was appointed to a fixed term lectureship within the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering group in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. 3 years later he relocated to a permanent position within the Department of Biomedical Science where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009 and to a Personal Chair in 2011. Beppe is now the Professor of Synthetic Biology and one of the youngest professor in the Univerisity. Beppe is the recipient of the prestigious Human Frontiers of Science Young Investigator Program together with Prof. A. Engler (UCSD) and the 2011 ERC STG Award as well as the 2011 APS/IoP Polymer Physics Exchange Lecture and the 2011 GSK Emerging Scientist Award. Beppe’s research is focused on the investigation of the specific design rules behind inter/intramolecular interactions and self-assembly of soft matter systems often taking inspiration from biological systems such as cells and viruses. These are subsequently translated into the engineering of nanostructured biomaterials such as nanoscopic vectors and/or synthetic scaffolds.
Biomaterials Science is now accepting submissions. All articles will be free to access until the end of 2014. Please contact the editorial office if you have any questions about the journal.
Don’t forget you can Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter to keep up with the latest news.
If you want to find out about the first articles once they’re published online why not sign up for the Biomaterials Science RSS feed or Table of Contents alert.
Biomaterials Science is inviting submissions on ‘Nanomaterials for biomedical applications’
Publishing only very high quality articles, the journal will cover the fundamental science of biomaterials though to their biomedical applications, including ‘Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications’.
Articles will be free to access* until the end of 2014 giving your article the widest possible audience. You can find our online submission system at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bmsci
Nanomaterials for biomedical applications is an important topic covered by Biomaterials Science so to celebrate the launch, and highlight this part of the journal scope, we’ve made a selection of reviews from across RSC journals free to read until 3rd August.
1. Feature Article: Fluorescent dye-doped silica nanoparticles: new tools for bioapplications
Se Won Bae, Weihong Tan and Jong-In Hong,
Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 2270-2282
2. Review: Graphene: a versatile nanoplatform for biomedical applications
Yin Zhang, Tapas R. Nayak, Hao Hong and Weibo Cai,
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 3833-3842
Click here to read the full list of articles
To highlight another area of the scope of Biomaterials Science – Delivery systems – we’re making a collection of articles from across RSC journals free for 4 weeks. I hope you enjoy reading them.
1. Communication: Redox-sensitive polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery
Hanjoung Cho, Jungeun Bae, Vivek K. Garripelli, Joel M. Anderson, Ho-Wook Jun and Seongbong Jo, Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6043-6045
2. Review: Self-assembly of biodegradable polyurethanes for controlled delivery applications
Mingming Ding, Jiehua Li, Hong Tan and Qiang Fu, Soft Matter, 2012,8, 5414-5428
3. Critical Review: Functionalized mesoporous silica materials for controlled drug delivery
Piaoping Yang, Shili Gai and Jun Lin, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012,41, 3679-3698
Click here to read the full collection of articles
If you’re an RSC member you’ll already be familiar with Chemistry World – it’s the magazine that arrives on your doorstep each month – but for anyone who’s not familiar with it, Chemistry World is an online news website and monthly magazine covering chemistry news, analysis articles, research highlights, features, business news, opinion columns, job adverts and other stories from across the chemical sciences.
Chemistry World reports on the most important research so you’ll see articles covering research in Science, Nature and other top journals – but I’m pleased to say that plenty of articles in RSC journals also get highlighted. Biomaterials Science aims to publish only important and high impact research so we hope we’ll see our fair share of articles featured to.
To give you a flavour of the some of the recent biomaterials-related news in Chemistry World I’ve brought together a selection of recent news articles. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Don’t forget you can Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter to keep up with the latest news
If you want to find out about the first articles once they’re published online why not sign up for the Biomaterials Science RSS feed or Table of Contents alert.
