Global Excellence in Bioactive Gels (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

We are grateful to all authors, reviewers, and readers for their responses to the first edition of our Special Issue on “Global Excellence in Bioactive Gels”. You can access these articles for free via the following link:

Global Excellence in Bioactive Gels

Bioactive gels are used globally in medicine, drug discovery systems, cosmetics, food products, the environment, etc. Gels have a complex three-dimensional network structure and exhibit a wide range of physical properties. For example, hydrogels are natural or synthetic polymers that swell with water. They can change their volume discontinuously and reversibly in response to their composition and external conditions such as temperature, the presence of solvents, light, and electric fields. Extracellular matrix hydrogels (fibrous proteins, such as collagen, and polysaccharides, such as hyaluronic acid), synthetic polymer hydrogels, and rigid polymer materials have been used as scaffold materials, in chromatography, as membranes, as drug delivery systems (DDSs), in transplantation, in regenerative therapy, in biosensors, and in biological fuel cells, among others.

Here, we call for reports on ‘Global Excellence in Bioactive Gels (2nd Edition)’ that come from various fields. Examples of topics of interest include the following:

• The synthesis, properties, and functionalization of bioactive gels.
• The development of and applied research on bioactive gels (medicine, dental science, cosmetology, food science, environmental science, agricultural chemistry, etc.).

This Special Issue seeks to publish high-quality articles, including original research and reviews.

Dr. Yoshitaka Miyamoto
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Gels is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• bioactive gels
• natural polymers
• synthetic polymers
• gel properties
• sol–gel method
• gel membrane
• drug delivery system (DDS)
• regenerative therapy
• biosensor
• application of gels

• Global Excellence in Bioactive Gels in Gels (9 articles)