Forthcoming Special Issues

28 August 2022

3D printing for bioprocess engineering

With this special issue, we would like to explore the use of 3D printing for bioprocess engineering, including new biocompatible printable materials, printed growth supports and printed bioreactors, printed micro- and milli-fluidic devices, new bioprocessing instruments that are prototyped by the use of 3D printing and the biotechnological use of geometries that can only be generated by 3D printing.

Special issue information:

Additive Manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, is a manufacturing process for independent and distributed manufacturing and prototyping of goods and machines. Since the first extrusion-based 3D printing patent expired, the technology is rapidly expanding, and better and cheaper 3D printers become available as well as an uncountable number of new printing materials. In biotechnology, 3D printing can be used for tissue engineering, bio-inks, microfluidics, chromatography and a whole number of newly generated and prototyped instruments. With this special issue, we would like to explore the use of 3D printing for bioprocess engineering, including new biocompatible printable materials, printed growth supports and printed bioreactors, printed micro- and milli-fluidic devices, new bioprocessing instruments that are prototyped by the use of 3D printing and the biotechnological use of geometries that can only be generated by 3D printing. This intersection of material sciences and biotechnological applications creates a huge potential for future research and re-democratization of manufacturing processes and biotechnological research through distributed manufacturing.

Manuscript submission information:

You can submit the manuscript in the below link https://www.editorialmanager.com/nbiot/default.aspx

Keywords:

3D printing, additive manufacturing, prototyping, printing materials, geometry, bioprocess, biocompatible

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15 June 2022

Artificial Intelligence for Life Sciences

Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous in the life sciences today. For this special issue, manuscripts are sought on theory and methods for solving problems in the life sciences environment. Topics include a wide range from machine learning and Big Data analytics, knowledge discovery and data mining, biomedical ontologies and knowledge reasoning, knowledge-based reasoning, natural language processing, decision support and reasoning under uncertainty, temporal and spatial representation and inference, explainable AI (XAI), etc.

Special issue information:

This is a rolling issue. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass editorial pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (rolling - as soon as accepted).

Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the main editor for an editorial pre-check.

Manuscript submission information:

To have your article considered for this special issue, please submit your manuscript through Editorial Manager at the following link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/nbiot/default1.aspx

To indicate your article should be included in this special issue, please select the article type 'VSI: AI & Machine Learning'