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Open Biomaterials Research

Published January 13, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

From drug delivery to artificial organs, the design, development, and characterization of biomaterials opens countless avenues for improved medical therapeutics and diagnostics. As the importance of biomaterials research for healthcare grows, so does the need for the corresponding results to be open, well-reported and reproducible. In this PLOS ONE collection, we aim to bring together the biomedical and materials science research communities, to foster interdisciplinary exchange on a wide range of topics and on questions of reporting standards and openness in the field of biomaterials. We hope to particularly showcase recipes, protocols, open-source tools as well as null and negative results.

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PLOS ONE Open Biomaterials Research | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog
May 27, 2019 Aldo Boccaccini, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Michael C. McAlpine, Jie Song
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10.1371/journal.pone.0216564

PLOS ONE Integrated cancer tissue engineering models for precision medicine
May 10, 2019 Michael E. Bregenzer, Eric N. Horst, Pooja Mehta, Caymen M. Novak, Shreya Raghavan, Catherine S. Snyder, Geeta Mehta
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10.1371/journal.pone.0218045

PLOS ONE Cell encapsulation in liquified compartments: Protocol optimization and challenges
June 21, 2019 Clara R. Correia, Maryam Ghasemzadeh-Hasankolaei, João F. Mano

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10.1371/journal.pone.0224661

PLOS ONE Development of a novel automatable fabrication method based on electrospinning co electrospraying for rotator cuff augmentation patches
November 14, 2019 Sergi Rey-Vinolas, Oscar Castaño, Leonardo Ruiz-Macarrilla, Xavier Llorens, José M. Mora, Miguel A. Mateos-Timoneda, Elisabeth Engel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0221931

PLOS ONE Design of modular gellan gum hydrogel functionalized with avidin and biotinylated adhesive ligands for cell culture applications
August 30, 2019 Christine Gering, Janne T. Koivisto, Jenny Parraga, Jenni Leppiniemi, Kaisa Vuornos, Vesa P. Hytönen, Susanna Miettinen, Minna Kellomäki
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10.1371/journal.pone.0220281

PLOS ONE Automated analysis of soft hydrogel microindentation: Impact of various indentation parameters on the measurement of Young’s modulus
August 2, 2019 Steven Huth, Sandra Sindt, Christine Selhuber-Unkel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0219078

PLOS ONE Biophysical comparison of four silver nanoparticles coatings using microscopy, hyperspectral imaging and flow cytometry
July 31, 2019 Robert Zucker, Jayna Ortenzio, Laura Degn, Jeremy Lerner, William Boyes
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10.1371/journal.pone.0218850

PLOS ONE Evaluation of parylene derivatives for use as biomaterials for human astrocyte cell patterning
June 25, 2019 Brad J. Raos, M. Cather Simpson, Colin S. Doyle, E. Scott Graham, Charles P. Unsworth
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10.1371/journal.pone.0217965

PLOS ONE Delivery of silver sulfadiazine and adipose derived stem cells using fibrin hydrogel improves infected burn wound regeneration
June 13, 2019 Jaideep Banerjee, Shanmuganathan Seetharaman, Nicole L. Wrice, Robert J. Christy, Shanmugasundaram Natesan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0217072

PLOS ONE Multifunctional graphene oxide/iron oxide nanoparticles for magnetic targeted drug delivery dual magnetic resonance/fluorescence imaging and cancer sensing
June 6, 2019 Roberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Elizabeth Campbell, Anton Naumov
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10.1371/journal.pone.0214419

PLOS ONE Pyridine as an additive to improve the deposition of continuous electrospun filaments
April 25, 2019 Antonina A. Lach, Hayley L. Morris, Joana A. Martins, Edward T. Stace, Andrew J. Carr, Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy
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10.1371/journal.pone.0212819

PLOS ONE Graphene oxide in zinc alginate films: Antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity, zinc release, water sorption/diffusion, wettability and opacity
March 7, 2019 Belén Frígols, Miguel Martí, Beatriz Salesa, Carolina Hernández-Oliver, Olav Aarstad, Ann-Sissel Teialeret Ulset, Gerd Inger Sӕtrom, Finn Lillelund Aachmann, Ángel Serrano-Aroca
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10.1371/journal.pone.0215985

PLOS ONE Novel approach for the assessment of ovarian follicles infiltration in polymeric electrospun patterned scaffolds
April 29, 2019 Nathalie Raffel, Ralf Dittrich, Tobias Bäuerle, Lisa Seyler, Amir Fattahi, Inge Hoffmann, Aldo Leal-Egaña, Matthias W. Beckmann, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Liliana Liverani
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10.1371/journal.pone.0213625

PLOS ONE Adapalene-loaded poly(ε-caprolactone) microparticles: Physicochemical characterization and in vitro penetration by photoacoustic spectroscopy
March 21, 2019 Jessica Mendes Nadal, Guilherme dos Anjos Camargo, Andressa Novatski, William Roger Macenhan, Daniele Toniolo Dias, Fernanda Malaquias Barboza, Amanda Lyra, João Ricardo Roik, Josiane Padilha de Paula, Aloisi Somer, Paulo Vitor Farago
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10.1371/journal.pone.0214956

PLOS ONE Low molecular weight ε-caprolactone-p-coumaric acid copolymers as potential biomaterials for skin regeneration applications
April 8, 2019 Marco Contardi, Alejandro Alfaro-Pulido, Pasquale Picone, Susana Guzman-Puyol, Luca Goldoni, José J. Benítez, Antonio Heredia, Markus J. Barthel, Luca Ceseracciu, Giovanni Cusimano, Ornella Roberta Brancato, Marta Di Carlo, Athanassia Athanassiou, José A. Heredia-Guerrero
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10.1371/journal.pone.0214066

PLOS ONE Enhanced antibacterial and anticancer properties of Se-NPs decorated TiO₂ nanotube film
March 22, 2019 Ondrej Bilek, Jaromir Hubalek, Zdenka Fohlerova
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10.1371/journal.pone.0214411

PLOS ONE Antimicrobial biopolymer formation from sodium alginate and algae extract using aminoglycosides
March 26, 2019 Lokender Kumar, John Brice, Linda Toberer, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Daniel Knauss, Susanta K. Sarkar
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Michele Dipalo

PLOS ONE Cost-effective and multifunctional acquisition system for in vitro electrophysiological investigations with multi-electrode arrays
March 25, 2019 Leonardo D. Garma, Laura Matino, Giovanni Melle, Fabio Moia, Francesco De Angelis, Francesca Santoro, Michele Dipalo
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10.1371/journal.pone.0215667

PLOS ONE hPL promotes osteogenic differentiation of stem cells in 3D scaffolds
May 7, 2019 Hanan Jafar, Duaa Abuarqoub, Nidaa Ababneh, Maram Hasan, Shrouq Al-Sotari, Nazneen Aslam, Mohammed Kailani, Mohammed Ammoush, Ziad Shraideh, Abdalla Awidi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0213303

PLOS ONE Silk fibroin hydrogels from the Colombian silkworm Bombyx mori L: Evaluation of physicochemical properties
March 4, 2019 Augusto Zuluaga-Vélez, Diego Fernando Cómbita-Merchán, Robison Buitrago-Sierra, Juan Felipe Santa, Enrique Aguilar-Fernández, Juan C. Sepúlveda-Arias
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10.1371/journal.pone.0216406

PLOS ONE Flow imaging microscopy as a novel tool for high-throughput evaluation of elastin-like polymer coacervates
May 9, 2019 Laura Marvin, Wynter Paiva, Nicole Gill, Marissa A. Morales, Jeffrey Mark Halpern, James Vesenka, Eva Rose M. Balog
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10.1371/journal.pone.0216537

PLOS ONE Fiber alignment drives changes in architectural and mechanical features in collagen matrices
May 15, 2019 Paul V. Taufalele, Jacob A. VanderBurgh, Adam Muñoz, Matthew R. Zanotelli, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King
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10.1371/journal.pone.0215137

PLOS ONE Quanfima: An open source Python package for automated fiber analysis of biomaterials
April 11, 2019 Roman Shkarin, Andrei Shkarin, Svetlana Shkarina, Angelica Cecilia, Roman A. Surmenev, Maria A. Surmeneva, Venera Weinhardt, Tilo Baumbach, Ralf Mikut
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10.1371/journal.pone.0211731

PLOS ONE Exploring the effects of electrospun fiber surface nanotopography on neurite outgrowth and branching in neuron cultures
February 4, 2019 Anthony R. D’Amato, Devan L. Puhl, Alexis M. Ziemba, Christopher D. L. Johnson, Janneke Doedee, Jonathan Bao, Ryan J. Gilbert
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10.1371/journal.pone.0211059

PLOS ONE Mechanics of composite hydrogels approaching phase separation
January 25, 2019 Xiufeng Li, Wolf Rombouts, Jasper van der Gucht, Renko de Vries, Joshua A. Dijksman
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10.1371/journal.pone.0212701

PLOS ONE The use of tail-anchored protein chimeras to enhance liposomal cargo delivery
February 22, 2019 Abbi Abdelrehim, Lior Shaltiel, Ling Zhang, Yechezkel Barenholz, Stephen High, Lynda K. Harris
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10.1371/journal.pone.0207965

PLOS ONE Polymerization kinetics stability, volumetric changes, apatite precipitation, strontium release and fatigue of novel bone composites for vertebroplasty
March 18, 2019 Piyaphong Panpisut, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Kirsty Main, Mayda Arshad, Wendy Xia, Haralampos Petridis, Anne Margaret Young
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10.1371/journal.pone.0212799

PLOS ONE Osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells is enhanced in a 45S5-supplemented β-TCP composite scaffold: an in-vitro comparison of Vitoss and Vitoss BA
February 27, 2019 Fabian Westhauser, Maria Karadjian, Christopher Essers, Anne-Sophie Senger, Sébastien Hagmann, Gerhard Schmidmaier, Arash Moghaddam
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10.1371/journal.pone.0210898

PLOS ONE PEO-b-PPO star-shaped polymers enhance the structural stability of electrostatically coupled liposome/polyelectrolyte complexes
January 17, 2019 Camille E. Pinguet, Esther Ryll, Alexander A. Steinschulte, Jón M. Hoffmann, Monia Brugnoni, Andrey Sybachin, Dominik Wöll, Alexander Yaroslavov, Walter Richtering, Felix A. Plamper
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10.1371/journal.pone.0211078

PLOS ONE Preparation and characterization of size-controlled glioma spheroids using agarose hydrogel microwells
January 24, 2019 Fereshtehsadat Mirab, You Jung Kang, Sheereen Majd
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10.1371/journal.pone.0209492

PLOS ONE Energy landscape for the insertion of amphiphilic nanoparticles into lipid membranes: A computational study
January 9, 2019 Reid C. Van Lehn, Alfredo Alexander-Katz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0217137

PLOS ONE Identifying extractable profiles from 3D printed medical devices
May 22, 2019 Joel D. Rindelaub, Zane Baird, Bruce A. Lindner, Angela A. Strantz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0209386

PLOS ONE Understanding the impact of crosslinked PCL/PEG/GelMA electrospun nanofibers on bactericidal activity
December 20, 2018 Mirian Michelle Machado De Paula, Nicole Joy Bassous, Samson Afewerki, Samarah Vargas Harb, Paria Ghannadian, Fernanda Roberta Marciano, Bartolomeu Cruz Viana, Carla Roberta Tim, Thomas Jay Webster, Anderson Oliveira Lobo

Guest Editors

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Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli

Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli Prof Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
July 1, 2018 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Biomaterials
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Michael C. McAlpine

Michael C. McAlpine Prof Michael C. McAlpine
July 1, 2018 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Biomaterials
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Jie Song

Jie Song Prof Jie Song
July 1, 2018 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Biomaterials
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Aldo R. Boccaccini

Aldo R. Boccaccini Prof Aldo R. Boccaccini
July 1, 2018 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Biomaterials

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