Bio-inspired Materials Chemistry

Abstract

Progress reports are a new type of article in Advanced Engineering Materials, dealing with the hottest current topics, and providing readers with a critically selected overview of important progress in these fields. It is not intended that the articles be comprehensive, but rather insightful, selective, critical, opinionated, and even visionary. We have approached scientists we believe are at the very forefront of these fields to contribute the articles, which will appear on an annual basis. The article below describes the latest advances in Bio‐inspired Materials Chemistry.

Fabrication of Bio-Nanocomposite Nanofibers Mimicking the Mineralized Hard Tissues via Electrospinning Process

“…Several major requirements, which are critical in the development of biomaterials for hard tissue regeneration purpose, have to be taken into account: (1) the material must have a positive influence on the amount and quality of newly formed hard tissue, (2) the material must shorten the period of hard tissue formation and healing process of damaged tissues, (3) the material must not cause any adverse effects, namely inflammatory or toxic response, and (4) it must obtain mechanical properties that match with the natural hard tissues [8,9]. In recent years, particular attention has been paid to the biomimetic approaches, which allow us to mimic such nature-made bio-inorganic and bio-organic composite materials [10]. The main idea in biomimetic approaches is to control and fabricate the morphology and the composition of developed biomaterials, in which the nanocrystallites of inorganic compounds are being dispersed with preferential orientation in the organic matrices.…”

Multifunctional and hybrid systems based on calcium-phosphate and hydroxyapatite for preventive and regenerative medicine

“…Istraživači širom sveta pokušavaju da razviju nove metode sinteze i dizajniranja na bazi prirodnih i poznatih procesa. Biomimična metoda pokazala se pogodnom za sintezu materijala složenih oblika i struktura, pogodnih za korišćenje u biološkim sistemima [79]. Antitela, poput ljudskog imunoglobulina IgG, se mogu konjugovati tj.…”

Defining organominerals: Comment on ‘Defining biominerals and organominerals: Direct and indirect indicators of life’ by Perry et al. (2007, Sedimentary Geology, 201, 157–179)

“…In this concluding definition of organominerals, the authors add to those natural terrestrial organominerals, the "meteorites and manufactured chemicals […] derived from organic matter compounds not produced by life" (Perry et al, 2007, p. 172). However, in a geobiological perspective (Nealson and Ghiorse, 2001), a number of such manufactured organominerals should be regarded as biominerals because they are formed by the uptake of elements and their incorporation into mineral functional structures under direct biological (human) control (Dujardin and Mann, 2002;Davies et al, 2003).…”