Recent Advances in Biomass-Based Functional Gels
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 4334
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Interests: hydrogels; intelligent materials; biomimetic soft actuators; supramolecular self-assembly; nanomaterials; fluorescent materials and displayers; adsorption and separation; degradable polymers, wastewater treatment and environmental protection
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Interests: fibers; supercapacitor; aerogel; water treatment
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Interests: nanomaterials; hydrogels; self-assembly; polymer composites; advanced oxidation technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass-based composite hydrogels have developed rapidly in the past decade, promising new materials for various fields. Compared with the most common hydrogels, biomass-based composite hydrogels can own specific advantages such as being bio-degradable and having a highly increased specific surface area and highly enhanced mechanical strength, owing to the composited biomasses including diverse bio-macromolecules and natural biomass-based nano/microstructures. Therefore, biomass-based composite hydrogels can provide various excellent functions, which have been utilized in bio-mimetic soft mini-actuators, biomedical/wearable sensors, heavy metal detections/adsorptions for environmental protection, anti-bacteria/anti-adhesion, and so on. However, research of biomass-based functional gels is in its infancy; it is still a great challenge for scientists to expand the depth and breadth of this research, so as to further extend the types of biomass materials for hydrogels and greatly extend the functions/applications in the future.
Therefore, this Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Biomass-Based Functional Gels” will focus on research referring to the subject of biomass-based functional gels (hydrogels, aerogels, organic gels, ionic liquid gels and their composites). We are pleased to invite you to contribute your recent work for this Special Issue. Submitted works may be recent research articles, reviews or prospective studies on the subject of bioinspired polymeric gels, including but not limited to the following topics: bio-mimetic soft mini-actuators, biomedical/wearable sensors, heavy metal detection/adsorption for environmental protection, anti-bacteria/anti-adhesion, self-healing, bio-degradation and mechanical strength enhancement.
Prof. Dr. Chunxin Ma
Dr. Gaigai Duan
Dr. Zhenzhong Liu
Guest Editors
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