Editorial: Combating Bacterial Infections Through Biomimetic or Bioinspired Materials Design and Enabling Technologies

Gianluca Ciardelli; Aldo R Boccaccini; Ipsita Roy; Antonia Nostro; Jochen Salber

doi:10.3389/fbioe.2021.818643

Editorial: Combating Bacterial Infections Through Biomimetic or Bioinspired Materials Design and Enabling Technologies

Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2021 Dec 16:9:818643. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.818643. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Gianluca Ciardelli¹, Aldo R Boccaccini², Ipsita Roy³, Antonia Nostro⁴, Jochen Salber^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
² Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
³ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
⁵ Salber Laboratory, Centre for Clinical Research, Department of Experimental Surgery, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum GmbH, Bochum, Germany.

No abstract available

Keywords: antibacterial activity; antibacterial composites; bioactive ceramic; bioinspired biomaterials; biomimetic polymers; drug-free; in vitro models; surface functionalisation.

Publication types

Editorial