Special Issue: Biodegradable Metals

As a sponsor of the 9^th Biometal Symposium on Biodegradable Metals for Biomedical Applications, a special issue of Bioactive Materials will be published on “Biodegradable Materials”. Regular papers, reviews and short communications will be published (after regular submission to the journal and full peer-review).

The main topics of consideration for this special issue will include:

• Materials development, design, processes, surfaces and interfaces;
• Corrosion, processes, degradation, assessment, standardization procedures;
• In vitro works, including the assessment of the performances by in vitro processes;
• In vivo results, prediction of the preclinical and clinical performances, methods for assessing the in vivo results, including imaging, non-destructive testing, and others;
• Any other pertinent research devoted to biodegradable metals

Paper submission due:
15 November 2017

Guest editors:
Diego Mantovani
Lab Biomaterials & Bioengineering, Laval University, Quebec City
Canada
Email: Diego.Mantovani@gmn.ulaval.ca

Mark P. Staiger
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
New Zealand
Email: mark.staiger@canterbury.ac.nz

Frank Witte
Julius Wolff Institute and Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
Email: frank.witte@charite.de

Yufeng Zheng
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Email: yfzheng@pku.edu.cn