Call For Papers: Biofabrication: Exploring Materials-Living System Interactions

Biofabrication has historically found major applications in healthcare-focused areas such as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. While the field continues to impact and advance these areas, biofabrication research has also rapidly expanded into a much broader range of living systems, finding applications in areas such as non-mammalian cells, bacteria, microalgae, food systems, and engineered living materials.

This Special Issue from ACS Materials Letters will showcase how strategic materials design in biofabrication research enables an ever-expanding range of functionalities across diverse living systems. We welcome materials-focused and forward-thinking contributions that highlight how the study of materials-living system interactions is driving the advancement of biofabrication in both traditional and emerging applications. 

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Materials design approaches for biofabrication for regenerative medicine purposes
• Biofabrication of in vitro platforms for modeling physiological and pathological systems
• Materials and processes for biofabrication in food and alternative protein systems
• Biofabrication with non-mammalian living systems, including bacteria, microalgae, fungi, and consortia
• Engineered living materials and hybrid materials–living systems
• Emerging biofabrication applications beyond healthcare, including environmental and industrial uses

Submit your manuscript by November 30, 2026.

Organizing Editors

Prof. Grissel Trujillo de Santiago, Associate Editor, ACS Materials Letters
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Prof. Mario Moisés Alvarez, Guest Editor
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Prof. Carmine Gentile, Guest Editor
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Prof. Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Guest Editor
Technische Universität Wien, Austria

Submission Information

We welcome submissions for this Special Issue through November 30, 2026. For more information on submission requirements, please visit the journal’s Author Guidelines page.

Accepted manuscripts for consideration in this Special Issue will include Letters, Perspectives, Reviews, and viewpoints. Papers accepted for publication for this Special Issue will be available ASAP (as soon as publishable) online. After all submissions have been published, they will then be compiled online on a dedicated landing page to form the Special Issue. Manuscripts submitted for consideration will undergo the full rigorous peer review process expected from ACS journals.

How to Submit

• Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
• Select the "Journals" tab.
• Choose ACS Materials Letters.
• Click "Submit."
• Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection," choose “Biofabrication: Exploring Materials-Living System Interactions."

If you have any general questions regarding submission to this Special Issue, please contact Prof. Grissel Trujillo de Santiago (trujillo.de.santiago-office@materialslett.acs.org).