The design of bioactive coatings through combining green strategies and natural formulations prevails over conventional synthetic systems. These approaches address the need to provide biofunctional properties through alternative solutions. Green strategies include methodologies that involve lower environmental impact, namely by using green solvents and reagents, or low-cost and low-toxic processes, promoting an optimized life assessment of the product, among other features. It is important to note that most recent methodologies (e.g., 3D printing, electrospinning, layer-by-layer deposition, or dip coating) enable the design of novel and tailor-made structures, whose assemblies/morphology can be essential to guarantee the formulation’s functionality.The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CIMO ((UIDB/00690/2020 and UIDP/00690/2020)) and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021). National funding by FCT, through the institutional scientific employment program-contract with Arantzazu Santamaria-Echart.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
