biomaterials
Use when targeting Biomaterials or deciding whether a biomaterials manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the dual materials-characterization-plus-biological-evaluation bar, mechanism rigor, house style, the Biomaterials-vs-NBME-vs-functional-materials routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill biomaterials --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Biomaterials (biomaterials) ## Journal positioning Biomaterials is an Elsevier journal for materials designed for biological and medical application: tissue engineering and regenerative scaffolds, drug and gene delivery, implants and coatings, and biointerfaces. Its defining demand is **dual rigor** — a submission must combine thorough materials design and characterization *with* genuine biological evaluation (in vitro and/or in vivo), and the two must be tied together by a mechanism: how the material's properties produce the biological outcome. A strong materials paper carrying only a token cell-viability assay, or a biology study using an off-the-shelf material with no materials advance, is a poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Biomaterials Guide for Authors on the Elsevier site. ## When to trigger - The author names Biomaterials for a tissue-engineering, delivery, implant, or biointerface manuscript and wants a fit/framing and dual-rigor check. - A materials paper must be re-framed to add — and mechanistically connect — meaningful biolog
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the biomaterials skill do?
Use when targeting Biomaterials or deciding whether a biomaterials manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the dual materials-characterization-plus-biological-evaluation bar, mechanism rigor, house style, the Biomaterials-vs-NBME-vs-functional-materials routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill biomaterials --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.