What is it about?
This short article is the prefatory note for the special issue entitled biointerface and biofouling for the Materials Technology. Dr. Chapman in Australia and I were invited to the journal as guest editor 2015. We collected 10 papers totally and introduced them to you there. They will bring you a new perspective on biofouling/biofilm topics from materials science and engineering.
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Why is it important?
A multidisciplinary approach involving chemistry, biology, materials science and engineering is indispensible to solve the problem of biofouling of biomaterials and device-associated biofouling proliferation. We believe this special issue identifies a new frontier for biomaterials and helps to complete an important missing link between biomaterials research and bacteriology/biology.
Perspectives
I have pursued biofouling/biofilm topics in these more than 10 years. I am one of the material scientists and have felt so far that most of the investigations in this field have been done from biological viewpoints usually. But the phenomena should be understood based on the combination of biology and material sciences. This special issue is actually the original point for my affirmation and intention.
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Biointerfaces and biofouling, Materials Technology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/b14z.00000000021.
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