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Biomaterials Science celebrates its first (partial) Impact Factor

Biomaterials Science is pleased to announce its first (partial) Impact Factor of 3.831


Biomaterials Science is committed to publishing exceptional articles that explore the underlying science behind the function, interactions and design of biomaterials. Its impressive first (partial) Impact Factor of 3.831 is a strong assurance that research published in our new journal is highly visible and relevant to the biomaterials community. Take a look at these popular Biomaterials Science articles below:

Sustained delivery of bioactive neurotrophin-3 to the injured spinal cord
Irja Elliott Donaghue, Charles H. Tator and Molly S. Shoichet
Biomater. Sci., 2015, 3, 65-72

Hyperbranched PEG-based supramolecular nanoparticles for acid-responsive targeted drug delivery
Xiaofei Chen, Xuemei Yao, Chunran Wang, Li Chen and Xuesi Chen
Biomater. Sci., 2015, 3, 870-878

Angiopoietin-1 peptide QHREDGS promotes osteoblast differentiation, bone matrix deposition and mineralization on biomedical materials
Nicole T. Feric, Calvin C. H. Cheng, M. Cynthia Goh, Vyacheslav Dudnyk, Val Di Tizio and Milica Radisic
Biomater. Sci., 2014, 2, 1384-1398

A novel hanging spherical drop system for the generation of cellular spheroids and high throughput combinatorial drug screening
A. I. Neto, C. R. Correia, M. B. Oliveira, M. I. Rial-Hermida, C. Alvarez-Lorenzo, Ruis L. Reis and Joao F. Mano
Biomater. Sci., 2015, 3, 581-585

In vitro model alveoli from photodegradable microsphere templates
Katherine J. R. Lewis, Mark W. Tibbitt, Yi Zhao, Kelsey Branchfield, Xin Sun, Vivek Balasubramaniam and Kristi S. Anseth
Biomater. Sci., 2015, 3, 821-832

Noninvasive theranostic imaging of HSV-TK/GCV suicide gene therapy in liver cancer by folate-targeted quantum dot-based liposomes
Dan Shao, Jing Li, Yue Pan, Xin Zhang, Xiao Zheng, Zheng Wang, Ming Zhang, Hong Zhang and Li Chen
Biomater. Sci., 2015, 3, 833-841

Publishing your research in Biomaterials Science means that your article will be read and cited by your colleagues.

Our unique combination of high quality articles, outstanding Editorial and Advisory Board, free colour and flexible manuscript format make it clear to see why Biomaterials Science is a leading journal within the biomaterials field.

Our fast times to publication ensure that your research is reviewed and announced to the community rapidly.

From receipt, your research papers will be published in 68 days. Communications articles will be published in 53 days. (Data taken from average manuscript handling times between July 2014 – January 2015)

So join the many leading scientists that have already chosen to publish in Biomaterials Science and submit your research today to be seen with the best!

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Creating a blood substitute with polymers

Researchers create a ‘blood substitute’ using hemoglobin and polymers that mimics the behavior of blood in rats.

Graphical abstract: Asymmetric copolymer vesicles to serve as a hemoglobin vector for ischemia therapy

Blood transfusions are crucial for the successful treatment of many diseases and injuries. However, as we all know, donated blood can often be in short supply. Further, donated blood must always be screened for carrier diseases. In this study, the researchers aim to develop an encapsulation system for hemoglobin (a key component of blood transfusions) which can one day be used as a substitute for donated blood in the clinic.

The researchers used PEG (polyethylene-glycol) and PCL (poly caprolactone) as starting materials to build what they term ‘polymersomes’, or triblock copolymers consisting of a water-insoluble PCL segment and two water-soluble PEG chains. The hemoglobin-polymer aggregates were mixed into blood plasma substitute solutions. Once encapsulated, the hemoglobin-containing particles were studied to determine that the hemoglobin continued to be reactive. Most importantly, the researchers demonstrated that the encapsulated hemoglobin could continue to bind oxygen. Ascorbic acid was added to prevent hemoglobin from being oxidized to methemoglobin, an unreactive form of hemoglobin.

The researchers then demonstrated that hemoglobin could be contained in these polymersomes for up to 1 week with only 7% leakage of hemoglobin. The hemoglobin-polymersome particles were almost completely nontoxic to cells outside of the body, and did not interfere with regular blood components. Finally, animal studies were conducted where rats were first subjected to severe blood loss, followed by the introduction of hemoglobin-containing polymersomes. When hemoglobin-containing polymersomes were introduced, the animals recovered in a manner that was comparable to recovery after a blood transfusion. Further, the animals suffered only minimal inflammation after the polymersome treatment as compared to the introduction of non-encapsulated hemoglobin. This work is therefore an important step in demonstrating the feasibility of using similar ‘blood substitutes’ in clinical therapy in the future.

Asymmetric copolymer vesicles to serve as a hemoglobin vector for ischemia therapy
Bin Li, Yanxin Qi, ShaSha He, Yupeng Wang, Zhigang Xie, Xiabin Jing and Yubin Huang
Biomater. Sci., 2014, 2, 1254-1261 DOI: 10.1039/C4BM00123K

Debanti Sengupta recently completed her PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University.  She is currently a Siebel postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Biomaterials Science 2013 Immediacy Index is 0.89

Biomaterials Science coverWe are pleased to announce that Biomaterials Science‘s first official Immediacy Index is 0.890– fifth highest for all the journals in the Materials Science, Biomaterials category, according to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports®.

Immediacy Index is a measure of how quickly articles in a journal are cited, and is calculated as the average number of citations articles receive in the year they are published.  Our high number and ranking indicate that, even as a new journal, Biomaterials Science is making a splash in the community.  We would like to thank all our readers, authors and board members for their contribution to the early success of the journal.

Biomaterials Science will receive its first (partial) Impact Factor next year in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports®. For the latest Impact Factors of other Royal Society of Chemistry journals, take a look at this blog post.

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