Hydrogels for Biomedical and Structural Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 149
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymers; biomaterials; radiation engineering; nuclear engineering; environmental effects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymers and polymer composites have been the essential components for almost all hydrogels used in advanced biomedical applications. Their applications in biomedical applications have covered a wide range of areas, including drug delivery systems, medical imaging, chemical and biological sensors, enzymes immobilized in the hydrogel microspheres, self-assembly-based technologies, hydrogel-bio-nanoreactors, building blocks of scaffolds for tissue engineering, mimicking soft human tissues, and last but certainly not least the new frontiers on the implementations of hydrogels in preventing corrosions of the stainless steel rebars. Manuscripts which present novel copolymer and polymer composite hydrogels for advanced technologies will also be considered in this issue. There are even more pioneering research programs investigating other emerging applications where polymer hydrogels are being considered.
This Special Issue will publish only groundbreaking and new results on the synthesis, characterizations, and implementations of polymer hydrogels. Despite the fact that the focus will mainly be on nanohydrogels, manuscripts that reveal new findings and theories on micro and macro hydrogels will also be considered.
This issue will also include the synthesis of polymer hydrogels that are based on biocompatible and biodegradable natural polymers such as cellulose and gelatin. Gelatin is synthesized from a degraded form of collagen, which is a major component of protein found in bones, tendons, and skin. There are new trends and attempts to cross-link gelatin with various synthesized polymers to enhance their physical properties and widen their applications.
Prof. Dr. Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drug delivery
- medical imaging
- biosensors
- scaffolds
- tissue engineering
- hydrogels
- nanohydrogels
- nanocomposite hydrogels
