Advanced Study on Polymer-Based Hydrogels
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Polymers aims to highlight some of the most innovative findings in the construction, characterization, performance optimization, and functional application of advanced polymer hydrogel materials with considerations of their impact on human health, energy, and the sustainability of the environment.
As a new type of soft material, the application range of hydrogel had rapidly increased due to its highly controllable structure and function. New applications, such as in the medical field, flexible electronic components, energy devices, and so on, means that more stringent requirements have been put forward for the basic performance and functionality of hydrogels. At the same time, the directional design of hydrogels with special properties and functions requires researchers to have a deeper understanding of hydrogel network construction, the interaction mechanism in hydrogels, and related characterization methods. We invite the research community to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting comprehensive reviews or original research articles. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design, characterization method, and structure–activity relationship of hydrogel network structure and interaction;
- Hydrogels with special properties, such as anti-freezing, anti-drying, self-healing, shape memory, etc.;
- Improvement in the performance and exploration of the functional application of hydrogels, including high-performance hydrogel materials, hydrogel biomedical materials, hydrogel flexible electronic and wearable materials, hydrogel new energy materials, hydrogel bionic devices, and hydrogel flexible robots.
Dr. Yang Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrogel network structure
- hydrogel network interaction
- hydrogel processing and construction
- hydrogel biomedical material
- hydrogel flexible electronic and wearable materials
- hydrogel bionic devices
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