Smart Hydrogels for Drug Delivery Systems and Precision Medicine
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 151
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanocomposite hydrogels; stimuli-responsive polymers; controlled drug delivery system; multifuncional polymer systems; electroconductive polymers
Interests: nanoparticles; hydrogel; biocompatibility
Interests: materials for biomedical purposes; ecofriendly materials; hydrogel; biocompatibility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, hydrogels have emerged as a highly promising class of materials for biomedical applications. Their use as drug delivery systems, wound dressings, and scaffolds for wound healing and tissue regeneration has garnered significant attention due to their favorable physicochemical and biological properties. This topic is a vast and multidisciplinary domain, encompassing various research areas focused on innovation across different sectors. This Special Issue attempts to cover the most significant advances in the multiple types of traditional and advanced hydrogels with the aim to offer precision, customization, and multifunctionality for advanced therapies, including the following:
- Intelligent or stimulus-responsive hydrogels promoting advanced systems in drug delivery based on thermosensitive, pH-responsive, enzymatic, or magnetic mechanisms.
- Self-assembling hydrogels as amphiphilic peptides, block copolymers with spontaneous gelation.
- Natural and modified polymer hydrogels for different pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.
- Nanocomposite hydrogels for release controlled by multiple stimuli or in situ monitoring.
- 4D-Printed Hydrogels: bioprinting with "shape memory" polymers or the study of its programmed release as morphological changes due to stimuli (temperature/humidity).
Dr. Teresa Del Castillo-Castro
Dr. Karla Lizette Tovar-Carrillo
Dr. Rosa Alicia Saucedo-Acuña
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogel
- 3D/4D bioprinting
- natural polymer
- self-assembling hydrogels
- nanocomposite hydrogels
- drug delivery
- tissue regeneration
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