The Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials (JABFM) is an open access, peer-reviewed, international journal considering the publication of original contributions, reviews and editorials dealing with clinical and laboratory investigations in the fast growing field of biomaterial sciences and functional materials.

The areas covered by the journal will include:

• Biomaterials / Materials for biomedical applications
• Functional materials
• Hybrid and composite materials
• Soft materials
• Hydrogels
• Nanomaterials
• Gene delivery
• Nonodevices
• Metamaterials
• Active coatings
• Surface functionalization
• Tissue engineering
• Cell delivery/cell encapsulation systems
• 3D printing materials
• Material characterization
• Biomechanics

Editor Emeritus
Professor Alberto Cigada	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Editors in Chief
Professor Silvia Farè	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Professor MariaPia Pedeferri	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Professor Teodoro Valente	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Managing Editor
Andrea Brenna	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Paola Petrini	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Editorial Board
Cristina C. Barrias	Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto
Edoardo Bemporad	Università Rome TRE, Rome
Fabrizio Billi	University of California, Los Angeles
Aldo R. Boccaccini	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen
Gabriele Candiani	Politecnico si Milano, Italy
Roberto Chiesa	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Gianluca Cicala	University of Catania, Catania
Andrea Cochis	Università del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Novara
Anna Maria Coclite	Institute of Solid State Physics, Austria
Valeria Daniele	Università dell’Aquila, L’Aquila
Luigi De Nardo	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Barbara Del Curto	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Prof Marco Domingos	University of Manchester, Manchester
Dr Lorenza Draghi	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Edward Ebramzadeh	UCLA - Orthopaedic Hospital, Los Angeles
Jenny Faucheu	École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne
Gaetano Guerra	Università di Salerno, Salerno
Prof Havard Jostein Haugen	University of Oslo, Oslo
Loredana Incarnato	Università di Salerno, Salerno
Sergio Lorenzi	Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo
Valdir Mano	Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, São João del Rei
Giuseppe Mensitieri	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples
Abhay Pandit	National University of Ireland, Galway
Alessandro Pegoretti	Università di Trento, Trento
Giancarlo Pennati	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Lia Rimondini	Università del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Novara
Alessandro Sannino	University of Salento, Lecce
Matteo Santin	University of Brighton, Brighton
Maria Cristina Tanzi	Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Elena Varoni	University of Milan, Italy
Sandra Van Vierberghe	Ghent University, Ghent
Chiara Vitale Brovarone	Politecnico di Torino, Turin