Latest Advances and Prospects of Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 12272
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterials; multifunctional carriers; drug delivery systems (DDS); micro- and nanoparticles; hydrogel; membranes
Interests: drug delivery systems (DDS); biomaterials; multifunctional carriers; micro-and nano-particles; pro-drugs
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: drug delivery systems (DDS); biomaterials; multifunctional carriers; micro- and nano-particles; pro-drugs
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, hydrogels have received increasing attention as materials for biomedical applications because they are biocompatible and non-toxic. They consist of three-dimensional hydrophilic polymeric networks that can absorb large amounts of water or biological fluids due to the presence of hydrophilic groups, and are considered excellent candidates for biosensors, drug delivery vectors, wound healing, and vectors or cell matrices in tissue engineering. Depending on their characteristics, they can be natural or synthetic and classified as neutral or ionic hydrogels, while the network can consist of linear homopolymers, linear copolymers and block or graft copolymers. They can also be reactive to various stimuli, including heating, pH, light, and chemicals. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the release of various therapeutic agents, including small molecules and macromolecular drugs. They possess modulable physical properties and the ability to protect labile drugs from degradation by controlling their release; furthermore, due to their high biodegradability, low immunogenicity, ability to be transformed into solids, semi-solids, and liquids, and due to their ease of use, they are widely used in biomedicine. This Special Issue covers all aspects concerning recent studies on the design, preparation, and performance evaluation of hydrogels for biomedical applications.
Dr. Federica Curcio
Prof. Dr. Roberta Cassano
Prof. Dr. Sonia Trombino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- biomedical application
- drug delivery
- scaffold
- tissue engineering
- biosensor
- wound healing
- stimuli responsive
- method realization
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