Injectable Gels: Applications in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Injectable gels represent a promising strategy for facilitating drug delivery and tissue engineering, and offer several advantages such as minimal invasion, targeted delivery, regenerating damaged tissues and organs, supporting cell proliferation and differentiation, and facilitating tissue growth. This Topic Collection “Injectable Gel Applications in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering” aims to collect high-quality research and review articles in all the fields of injectable gel materials, with a focus on drug delivery and tissue engineering. Since the aim of this Topic Collection is to illustrate people through selected work and frontier research in injectable gel materials science, we encourage materials scientists, chemists, or clinical investigators to contribute papers reflecting the latest progress in their research fields. The topics include, without being limited to:

• Visualized functional injectable gels;
• Stem cells, exosomes, and nanoparticle-loaded injectable gels;
• 3D printing, electrospinning, and molding-based injectable gels;
• Immune-regulated injectable gels;
• Injectable DNA gels;
• The mechanism and effect of physical/chemical crosslinked injectable gels;
• Lubricant injectable hydrogels;

Prof. Dr. Jie Gao 

Prof. Dr. Yulin Li 

Prof. Dr. Yuangang Liu

Prof. Dr. Tonghe Zhu

Guest Editors

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