Serena Best
British materials scientist
Serena Michelle Best , is a British academic, and the Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge.
Best has a BSc from the University of Surrey, and a PhD from the University of London. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2012.
In the 2017 Birthday Honours, Best was made a CBE, "For services to Biomaterials Engineering."
Best was President of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining from 2019 to 2020.
Selected publications
Araujo JV, Davidenko N, Danner M, Cameron RE, Best SM: Novel Porous scaffolds of pH Responsive Chitosan/Carrageenan-based Polyelectrolyte Complexes for Tissue Engineering. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2014 Feb 14.
Pawelec KM, Husmann A, Best SM, Cameron RE: Understanding anisotropy and architecture in ice-templated biopolymer scaffolds. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2014 Apr 1;37:141-7.
Pawelec KM, Husmann A, Best SM, Cameron RE: A design protocol for tailoring ice-templated scaffold structure.
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