Advances in Functional and Intelligent Hydrogels
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Chemistry and Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 918
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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: nanomaterials; hydrogels; self-assembly; polymer composites; advanced oxidation technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, hydrogels with biotissue-like “wet-soft” structures have attracted more and more attention and have been developed for diverse fields including chemical engineering, tissue engineering, life science, environmental protection, and so on. In the past decade, hydrogels with various functions have been widely used for food processing, adsorption/separation, inspection/testing, wastewater treatment, marine antifouling, etc. Recently, hydrogels with intelligent functions have also been utilized for biomimetic actuation, drug-controlled release, wearable sensing, smart displaying, and so on. In addition, more and more functionalized components have been introduced to the hydrogels (such as various biomasses, nano-materials, and fluorescent materials). However, most of the existing hydrogels just have single functions, and many new-functional (especially in intelligent functions) hydrogels are urgently need to vigorously develop, which severely limits their further applications. Nowadays, it is still a great challenge to explore multi-functional and new-functional hydrogels (especially in intelligent hydrogels).
Therefore, this Special Issue, “Advances in Functional and Intelligent Hydrogels,” focuses on the closest research referring to the subject of functional and intelligent hydrogels. We are pleased to invite you to contribute your recent work for this Special Issue. Your works can be recent research articles, reviews, or prospects about the subject of functional or intelligent hydrogels, including but not limiting the scope of inspection/detection, adsorption/separation, anti-bacteria/anti-adhesion, smart displayers/wearable sensors, and biomimetic actuations/deformations.
Prof. Dr. Chunxin Ma
Dr. Zhenzhong Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functional/multi-functional hydrogels
- intelligent/smart hydrogels
- inspection/detection
- adsorption/separation
- anti-bacteria/anti-adhesion
- biomimetic actuators
- sensors/displayers
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