Soft Matter issue 20 was part of a themed on tissue engineering. The guest editors for this issue were Molly M. Stevens and Ali Khademhosseini. You can read their editorial here. In it they discuss emerging materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
The paper featured on the outside front cover was ‘Fibronectin-mimetic peptide-amphiphile nanofiber gels support increased cell adhesion and promote ECM production‘ by Efrosini Kokkoli and co-workers at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
The inside front cover featured ‘Guiding endothelial progenitor cell tube formation using patterned fibronectin surfaces‘ by Sharon Gerecht and co-workers at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
