Development of Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Application
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 2544
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomaterials; non-viral gene delivery vectors; hyperbranched polymers; cyclized polymers; controlled/living polymerization
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Dear Colleagues,
Among the various synthetic materials, polymers are particularly promising for biomedical applications because of their wide monomer availability, diversity in functionalities, ease of synthesis and large-scale production, excellent biocompatibility and mechanical strength. Recent advances in polymer chemistry have created powerful platforms for manipulating the chemical composition and topological structures and ultimately their biological functions in tissue engineering applications. For example, depending on the tissue microenvironment, different stimulus-sensitive polymers (e.g., pH, temperature, reactive oxygen species, acidity, etc.) have been developed to produce smart hydrogels for the treatment of chronic wounds and achieve accelerated wound healing, or to target doxrubicin into cancer tissues, with improved therapeutic efficiency and reduced side effects observed. These advances have brought synthetic polymers ever closer to their potential in biomedicine. Therefore, the development of synthetic polymers with tailored chemical composition and topological structure along with various functionalities using advanced synthesis strategies is of great importance to accelerate the maturation of biotechnology and transfer it from the laboratory to the bedside. The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent advances in the field, where synthetic polymers are indispensable, with the expectation of providing new insights into the development of clinically applicable polymeric biomaterials. The guest editors are soliciting original research articles and reviews that cover the emerging strategies for polymer synthesis, new applications of synthetic polymers in various areas of biomedicine, exciting new results both in vitro and in vivo, and potential challenges associated with translating synthetic polymers into the clinic.
Prof. Dr. Dezhong Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomaterial
- polymer synthesis
- polymer functionalization
- drug delivery
- tissue engineering
- bioimaging
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