Advanced Polymeric Materials for Medical Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 May 2025 | Viewed by 138
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymers and their composites are some of the most widely used materials in the field of biomedical sciences due to their vast potential for loading various functional moieties, thereby enabling their medical applications. These biofunctional polymers exhibit unique shapes, various physical–chemical properties, bioadhesion, tissue guiding, biocompatibility, biospecifically binding, biodegradability, and biological activity, making them useful in different biomedical applications. The continuous advancement of medical and pharmaceutical technology has boosted the research of novel and intelligent polymeric materials with outstanding properties. This makes the construction and preparation of polymer materials with specific functions particularly crucial.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive presentation on advanced design methods, synthetic approaches to polymeric materials and their medical applications, especially addressing fields such as drug delivery, gene transfection, tissue engineering, biosensing, biomedical imaging and diagnostics, disease detection, and therapy. Both original articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Jingyi Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biofunctional polymer
- functional polymeric materials and devices
- polymeric-based vaccine
- drug delivery
- molecular imaging
- gene transfection
- tissue engineering
- biosensing
- biomedical imaging and diagnostics
- disease detection and therapy
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