NanoBioInterface: a multidisciplinary challenge.
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چکیده
Nanotechnologies are being applied to many fields of science and engineering and represent a broad spectrum of methods, some of which have been known for a long time. However, the public interest as well as the promotion of this topic by funding agencies has led in some cases to a simple renaming of known fields by attaching the ‘nano-’ prefix, without initiating a true innovation. One field that indeed stands as being novel is the study of how the biosystem reacts to nanostructures. The latter covers a broad spectrum from nanoscale topographical features on a biomaterial surface (Thian et al. 2006; Wood 2007) through a three-dimensional, interconnecting porous nanofibre scaffold for tissue engineering (Dong et al. 2008; Martins et al. 2009) to biodegradable engineered nanoparticles (Son & Kim 2010; Yang et al. in press), designed for delivery of medication, or membranes formed by molecular self-assembly of nanostructures (Capito et al. 2008). Considering the multidisciplinary nature of this subject matter, it becomes apparent that the NanoBioInterface is not only a study of how nanostructured materials interact with biological systems, but on a higher level embodies the interfacial interactions between the so-called exact sciences and the life sciences which are the essence of the remit of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. On the threshold of the 2010 celebrations of the Royal Society’s 350 year anniversary, it is thus especially appropriate that such a topic, which can only be approached with the expertise of markedly differing disciplines, should be chosen for a Focus issue of the journal. The space limitation of a single issue does not permit a systematic approach to the topic, nor can it do justice to the diversity of disciplines involved in its research activity. Thus, manuscripts have been chosen mostly
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
دوره 7 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010