Smart Natural-Based Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 53856
Special Issue Editor
Interests: smart polymers; electrospinning; wound dressings; tendon repair; alginate; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural polymers have a range of biomedical applications, including drug delivery, wound healing, tissue engineering, biosensors, etc. Different polysaccharide and protein-based systems have been developed, each with properties that render them useful for certain applications, such as the water solubility of alginate, the thermo-sensitivity of chitosan, the abundance of cellulose and starch, or the cell adhesion and proliferation of gelatin and collagen. The smart use or modification of these natural polymers to introduce additional smart systems is particularly hot in the current state of the art.
This Special Issue will explore the design, synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of new, smart natural-based polymers. Considering your prominent contributions to this field, I wish to cordially invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue. Full research papers, communications, and review articles will be accepted. I would like to collate a collection of comprehensive articles from leading experts and up-to-date research from notable groups in the community.
Dr. Arn Mignon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart systems
- polymers
- polysaccharide
- protein
- modification
- biomedical
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