Advances in hydrogels for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 16438
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer chemistry; sustainable materials; biocomposites; biomaterials, nanocellulose, hydrogels; tissue engineering; cancer therapeutics; 3D printing/bioprinting; bioelectronics
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Dear Colleagues,
The design of hydrogel biomaterials for engineering complex tissues and controlled or targeted drug delivery is a great challenge in the biomedical field. Biomaterials interact with biologically complex systems and have to be to engineered into functional tissues operating in a three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment or into systems delivering drugs safely and efficiently. Hydrogels are composed of a highly hydrophilic 3D network that is able to mimic some of the functional physical and chemical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and may provide a suitable 3D micro-/nano-environment, resembling that of native tissues. In the last decades, there have been tremendous advances in hydrogels production for tissue engineering and drug delivery. Nevertheless, various key challenges remain to be overcome.
The goal of this Special Issue is to describe current advances and provide future perspectives and directions for research in hydrogels to improve hydrogels properties for tissue regeneration and safe and controlled drug delivery. Therefore, this forthcoming Special Issue is devoted to articles related to advances in hydrogel research for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications that present novel ideas and concepts for the synthesis of hydrogels and their characterization.
This Special Issue will publish original review and research articles on the following and related themes: polymeric hydrogels, hybrid hydrogels, self-healing hydrogels, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, composite and nanocomposite hydrogels, 3D printing of hydrogel inks, 3D bioprinting of bioinks, biomaterials for 3D printing, hydrogels for specific tissue engineering applications, nano-reinforced hydrogels for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications, hydrogels for the delivery of drugs, antibiotics, growth factors, genes, etc.
Dr. Anuj Kumar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- tissue engineering
- drug delivery
- cancer drug delivery
- 3D bioprinting
- self-healing hydrogels
- stimuli-responsive hydrogels
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