Bioactive and Biomedical Hydrogel Dressings for Wound Healing
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules, Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopolymers; hydrogels; biomass; nanoparticles; bioprinting; drug delivery; tissue engineering
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Special Issue Information
Wound healing is a multi-stage process of repairing damaged tissue and restoring its integrity, and the process mainly involves hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. Bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings have emerged as the most promising candidates in wound healing applications because of their favorable mechanical properties, biocompatibility, bioactive properties, and biodegradability features. Several preparation techniques have been characterized to generate bioactive and biomedical hydrogels, and a rational design in the fabrication of bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings guarantees successful applications, including skin tissue engineering and drug delivery.
This collection of works on bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings in wound healing showcases high-quality fundamental and basic research that covers a wide range of chemical, physical, and biological aspects surrounding the design of bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings for wound healing applications. The goal of this Special Issue is to publish research articles, short communications, review articles, and opinions.
Areas covered by this collection include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The design of bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings;
- Fabrication methods of bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings;
- Molecules and signal release in bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings;
- Stimuli-responsive bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings;
- Performance and characteristics of bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings;
- Bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings for scarless wound healing;
- Bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings for chronic wound healing;
Bioactive and biomedical hydrogel dressings with monitoring functions.
Dr. Lei Nie
Dr. Yingying Chu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive hydrogels
- dressings
- wound healing
- scarless wound
- chronic wound
- biomedical hydrogels
