Featured Review Papers in Gel Biomaterials
A Special Issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) belonging to the section "Polymer Networks and Gels".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 256
Editors
Interests: aerogels; supercritical fluids; regenerative medicine; pharmaceutical technology; 3D bioprinting; porous materials; scaffolds; polysaccharides
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Interests: polymer science; biomaterials; wound healing; regenerative medicine; drug delivery
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Interests: pharmaceutical technology; biomaterials; hydrogels; pharmacokinetics; drug delivery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, biomaterials have marked a paradigm shift in the biomedical and food fields. They have been widely used for the development of a vast range of regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and functional food applications. In parallel, the development of gels based on biomaterials has rapidly expanded in the form of advanced carriers to deliver a wide range of bioactive agents and scaffolds for tissue engineering, while maintaining their biocompatibility and physicochemical characteristics.
After many years of researchers working on gels in all their forms, they have undoubtedly shown that gels are among the systems with the greatest potential in the biomedical field. Moreover, the incorporation of advanced chemically modified biomaterials in the gel format has allowed for enhanced performance and unmatched properties so far.
Gels, namely hydrogels and aerogels, have been proven to be excellent platforms for the preparation of targeted drug delivery systems, cell encapsulation, biosensors, tissue engineering scaffolds, and other regenerative medicine approaches, disease models, and 3D cell cultures, among others.
This Special Issue intends to gather review papers on gel structure–processing–application interrelationships for specific case studies of biomaterials, processing methods, and applications for biomedicine and functional food.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Molecules.
Prof. Dr. Carlos A. García-González
Dr. Clara López-Iglesias
Dr. María Isabel Rial-Hermida
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Polymers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- aerogels
- proteins
- polysaccharides
- drug delivery
- functional food
- regenerative medicine
- 3D bioprinting
- biofabrication
- personalized medicine
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