Hydrogels, Microgels and Nanogels Emerging Platforms for Drug Delivery, Antibacterial Properties and Tissue Engineering
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Chemistry and Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 1815
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogels; polypeptides; drug delivery; antibacterial properties; ring opening polymerization; polyesters
Interests: peptide synthesis; non-proteinogenic amino acids; self-assembly; drug delivery; medical imaging; theranostic platforms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on “Hydrogels, Microgels and Nanogels Emerging Platforms for Drug Delivery, Antibacterial Properties and Tissue Engineering” is dedicated to recent achievements in gel materials that can revolutionize the potential of these networks to be used for advanced bio applications. In this respect, a broad range of subjects and advancements about chemistry, physics, rheology, material properties and applications of hydrogels, microgels and nanogels can be presented and discussed highlighting their importance in these fields.
The use of state-of-the-art materials that can offer a plethora of advantages has opened avenues the last years about their exploitation in applications improving the life expectancy and quality of life, dealing with modern problems of bacterial resistance, drug efficiency and restoring or replacing biological tissues. The contribution of gels is crucial, due to their unique properties of swelling, cross-linking, viscoelasticity, as well as, responsiveness to external stimuli. Additionally, the utilization of a big family of compounds, like synthetic polymers, polysaccharides and proteins has led to gels with high biocompatibility and/or biodegradation. Furthermore, the progress in the research about gel materials has intensified the collaboration between scientists with different background, since gels constitute a science subject that attracts the interest of researchers from many areas, studying and understanding them from many aspects.
This Special Issue will contain representative examples, illustrating new opportunities and developments. Its goal is the burst of interest about these materials that will lead to further discoveries.
Dr. Dimitrios Skoulas
Dr. Paula M. T. Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- microgels
- nanogels
- drug delivery
- antibacterial properties
- tissue engineering
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Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Injectable photocrosslinkable polysaccharide hydrogels for stem cell delivery and tissue regeneration
Author: Xiaojie Lin, Jacob Beizel, Yang Zhou, Avik Som, Miqin Zhang
Affiliation: UW
