Insights in biomaterials 2022/2023—novel developments, current challenges and future perspectives

We are now entering the third decade of the 21st century, and, especially in the last few years, the achievements made by scientists have been exceptional, leading to major advancements in the rapidly growing fields of bioengineering and biotechnology. New biomaterials designed with advanced features have been the driving force behind the applications in bioengineering and biotechnology fields. This annual Research Topic, which highlights article submissions typically from our Editorial Board members, looks to explore new insights, novel developments, current challenges, latest discoveries, recent advances, and future perspectives in the field of Biomaterials. This Research Topic solicited brief, forward-looking contributions that describe the state of the art, outlining recent developments and major accomplishments that have been achieved and that need to occur to move the field forward. We wanted to shed light on the progress made in the past decade in the biomaterials field, and on its future challenges, to provide a thorough overview of the field. This article Research Topic is intended to inspire, inform and provide direction and guidance to researchers in the field. Eleven articles have been finally accepted for this Research Topic which were a mixture of review papers and technical articles.