Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Gels (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

As the Guest Editors of this Gels Special Issue, “Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Gels (2nd Edition)”, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit an article on this topic. The article may be either a full paper or a communication based on your own research in this area, or may be a focused, critical review article on some aspect of the subject. All submissions will be subject to peer review.

In the field of polymers, stimuli-responsive gels are being explored thanks to the versatility of polymer chemistry. Stimuli-responsive gels can be viewed as state-of-the-art products of modern-day materials science, which have been demonstrated to exhibit highly responsive properties to various stimuli, including temperature, pH, magnetic fields, and so on. Up till now, stimuli-responsive gels have been widely used in the fields of drug delivery, wound repair, vaccines, catalysis, etc.

This Special Issue encourages submissions related to the following topics, but is not limited to them: stimuli-responsive hydrogels, self-healing hydrogels, drug delivery, chromotropic hydrogels, fluorescence hydrogels, 3D-printed hydrogels, etc. It is our pleasure to gather manuscripts covering all aspects of stimuli-responsive gels, including their formulation, manufacturing technologies, and current applications, in this Special Issue of Gels.

Prof. Dr. Yonggang Wu
Dr. Hailei Zhang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Gels is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• stimuli-responsive hydrogels
• self-healing hydrogels
• drug delivery
• chromotropic hydrogels
• fluorescence hydrogels
• three-dimensional-printed hydrogels