Editorial pubs.acs.org/journal/abseba
Welcome to ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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e welcome you to this new initiative from the ACS in the field of biomaterials! We are excited to help propel the field forward with this new publication forum. The biomaterials field has been expanding rapidly over the past decade. This growth is due to many factors, including medical needs, new biosynthetic and synthetic chemistries, and new technological innovations. The need to improve tailoring of materials chemistry, control of structure and morphology of materials, and new insight into biological interactions with materials underlies the field, particularly when considering biological interfaces as dynamic environments that can be navigated and utilized in a proactive way. New scientific insights and new engineering applications in the field of biomaterials have resulted in this new ACS journal. Our goal for the journal is to provide a single repository for top biomaterials-related studies from around the world. We plan to focus on cutting edge areas, including high impact papers, reviews, and topical issues covering emerging areas. Of critical importance to us as a team, and I am sure to you, the reader, is to provide a home for high-quality contributions in the field of biomaterials while achieving rapid turn-around time from submission to publication. We are committed to this goal. An accomplished Editorial Advisory Board has been assembled to help guide the journal. As the journal matures, we anticipate evolving the journal based on reader feedback, input from the editorial board members, and guidance from the ACS staff, to best meet the growing needs in the biomaterials field for the readership. We embrace the breadth of topics in the biomaterials community and plan to provide a journal that encompasses the full scope of advances and impact in the field. Thus, the scope of the journal ranges from topics of 3D printing and synthetic biology, to multiscale modeling; from biological responses to materials to drug delivery. Specific areas of coverage include modeling and informatics tools for biomaterials, new biomaterials, bioinspired and biomimetic approaches to biomaterials, biomaterial interfaces, biology and health, and manufacturing, technology, and tissues in the context of biomaterials. We look forward to engaging you as contributors and readers to establish this journal as the home for biomaterials publications, education, and a foundation in the field. Special thanks goes to our Editorial Board and to the ACS staff for their engagement and commitment to this effort, and to you, the readers and contributors, for helping us establish this new journal as the place to publish your work. We are excited to grow this effort and we welcome your ideas, feedback, and contributions moving forward.
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
Jason Burdick, Associate Editor Chris Holland, Associate Editor Milica Radisic, Associate Editor David L. Kaplan, Editor in Chief © 2014 American Chemical Society
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Received: December 21, 2014 Published: December 24, 2014 1
DOI: 10.1021/ab500173g ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2015, 1, 1−1
