Advances in Responsive Hydrogels (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

We are grateful to all the authors, reviewers and readers for their responses to the first edition of “Advances in Responsive Hydrogels”. You can access these articles for free via the link:

Advances in Responsive Hydrogels

In recent years, research efforts have focused on the design of responsive hydrogel systems with multiple applications due to their properties and versatility. These kinds of advanced materials are known to exhibit responsive properties to external stimuli, such as electrical field, light, pH, or temperature variations, which could alter their chemical and/or physical properties. This behavior can then be exploited to design advanced materials with unique properties. Moreover, these characteristics make them potentially applicable in the fields of adsorption, food packaging, soft robotics, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and for the modulated release of functional encapsulated compounds. Thus, this Special Issue offers high-quality research. I look forward to receiving submissions concerning the fabrication, characterization, and application of advanced hydrogel systems with responsive properties. As the Guest Editor of the second edition of this Gels Special Issue, it is my pleasure to invite you to submit an article. The article may be either a full research paper based on your own expertise or a focused, critical review article.

Dr. Gianluca Viscusi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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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.

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• hydrogels
• stimuli-responsive hydrogels
• hydrogel characterization
• pH monitoring
• triggered release
• smart gels
• tissue engineering
• polymeric gels
• drug delivery
• hydrogel synthesis

• Advances in Responsive Hydrogels in Gels (10 articles)