11Editorial
In Chapter 6, Kinikoglu etal. focus on the interface properties in engineering
skin tissue. Skin tissue engineering is one of the elds where another interface, air–
liquid interface, is an important component, and this chapter explains how air–liquid
interface can be used for keratinization of articial skin substitutes and the methods
to achieve functional tissue engineered skin. They describe the main parameters
that inuence the outcome of articial skin tissue development, such as biopolymer
chemistry, protein immobilization, and surface hydrophilicity, particularly from the
cell/scaffold interface point of view.
In Chapter 7, Matsumura et al. dene the conditions of cryoprotection and the
material considerations for the successful ...