Designing Gels for Wound Dressing (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 1232
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Interests: nanobiotechnology; tissue engineering; nanomaterials; nanofabrication; microbiology; molecular biology; protein chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, healthcare is facing a growing problem of traumatic wounds causing death. Skin is the major external defense system that protects the body from microbial infections and external environmental stressors. In developing countries, >90% of accidents cause skin injuries and subsequent deaths yearly. Molecules controlling inflammation and tissue repair are often associated with wound healing, and these factors’ dysregulation leads to mortality in wounded patients. To promote wound healing and skin tissue repair, effective wound dressing materials are active supplements to overcome the limitations of natural wound repair processes and to avoid scar formation. Hydrogels can be used as an active wound dressing material to enhance the repair process by maintaining optimal conditions for wound healing. The advantages of hydrogel dressings over conventional dressings are numerous. A topical application can help remove infected and necrotic tissue from dry wounds, scabs, and necrotic wounds and keep them clean.
Designing hydrogels with spatiotemporal regulation in the drug release for the wound-healing process is critical in wound management. As a multidisciplinary topic, this Special Issue will assist chemists, material scientists, engineers, and medical practitioners in understanding the benefits and limitations of hydrogels to build and create therapeutically beneficial biomaterial platforms for translational applications. It can also bring out the recent advances and novel methodologies in designing and developing active hydrogels to treat and heal wounds for cost-effective treatment. Furthermore, this field invites research on innovative functionalization chemistries, variable combinations/compositions of natural and synthetic hydrogels, introducing natural therapies, creating dynamic crosslinking chemistries, and fabricating multi-modal and intelligent hydrogels for wound management.
We gladly receive research and review articles relevant to the topics below, and other highly significant articles closely related to these topics are also welcome.
- Novel crosslinking methods in designing hydrogels;
- Three-dimensional/four-dimensional-printed hydrogels for wound healing;
- Antibacterial hydrogels in wound dressing;
- Biopolymer-based hydrogels in wound healing;
- Metal nanocomposite hydrogels for wound healing;
- Hydrogels for controlled drug delivery;
- Self-healing hydrogels for wound management;
- Smart responsive hydrogels for specific wound healing;
- Functional hydrogels for wound healing.
Dr. Kannan Badri Narayanan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- biopolymers
- nanocomposite
- antibacterial
- wound healing
- wound dressing
- wound management
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