Designing Gels for Wound Healing and Drug Delivery Systems
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 529
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gels; hydrogels; drug delivery; biomaterials; biomedical and pharmaceutical applications of gels; engineered gels for environmental applications; applications of gel-based materials and their composites in energy generation and storage; sensors; piezoelectric materials; nanomaterials for biomedical applications; regenerative medicine; green chemistry applications; green design in sustainable chemistry; biotechnology; green catalysis
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Interests: green chemistry; gels; hydrogels; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Drugs play an important role in disease treatment. However, many kinds of drugs are difficult for the body to utilize efficiently because they are insoluble in nontoxic solvents, irritant to tissues, and easily deactivated. Therefore, a series of drug delivery systems (e.g., nanoparticles, micelles, liposomes, and hydrogels) have been developed to carry and protect drugs and transport them into specific tissues or organs to achieve the expected modulation and therapeutic effects. Among these, hydrogel-based systems have attracted research interest. Hydrogels consist of hydrophilic polymer chains with physical or chemical crosslinking. They are soft and water-rich and similar to the tissues, and they have shown huge potential in biomedical fields, including diagnostics, tissue engineering, and restorative medicine. When delivered through the hydrogel-based systems, drugs can be locked in hydrogels by the polymer chains, and released by the free diffusion of drug molecules, the degradation of polymer chains, or the applied stimuli. These features make hydrogel-based drug delivery systems feasible and promising for disease treatment under various conditions.
In this Special Issue, we aim to present detailed and in-depth exploration and discussions on designing hydrogels for wound healing and drug delivery system. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the novel components of hydrogels; new strategies for fabrication or drugs encapsulation, transportation, and release; and the fundamental study of the effect on drug delivery of hydrogel parameters such as porosity, crosslinking degree, water content and so on.
We hope that this Special Issue can contribute new knowledge to related fields. Original research articles and concise and precise reviews are both accepted.
Dr. Mariana Chelu
Dr. Monica Popa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug delivery
- hydrogels
- biodegradable polymers
- stimuli-responsive polymers
- wound healing
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