EPJ Plus Focus Point: Multiscale Modelling and Physics of Biological and Hybrid Organic Systems – Part I: Biomaterials and Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Systems

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Published on 21 May 2026

Guest Editors: Attilio Vittorio Vargiu, Elisa Frezza, Claudio Melis

This Focus Point on Multiscale Modelling and Physics of Biological and Hybrid Organic Systems – Part I: Biomaterials and Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Systems is the first in a two-part series of topical collections in EPJ Plus exploring recent progress and promising research directions in the multiscale physical understanding and quantitative modelling of biological matter and hybrid organic systems.

Following the rapid development of modelling strategies across molecular, mesoscopic and continuum scales, this first edition will focus on biomaterials and hybrid organic–inorganic systems, with emphasis on structure–function relationships in soft and hybrid materials. Topics include bio-interfaces, membranes, polymeric biomaterials, hydrogels and supramolecular assemblies, as well as hybrid platforms where functional organic components couple to inorganic phases or engineered substrates. While emphasis is on the mathematical, physical and computational modelling of dynamical and functional processes in these systems, the guest editors would like to expressly invite methods papers, protocols, reproducible workflows, software tools, data reviews and curated benchmarking datasets, as well as experimental studies aimed at constraining, validating or benchmarking theoretical models.

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