Hydrogels for Advanced Applications: Biosensing, Bioenergy, Biomedical
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 422
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable materials; smart hydrogel; nanocomposites; cellulosic nanomaterials
Interests: biosensing; Data mining
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogels are enticing materials which open up new solutions for a wide range of applications. The latest decade has observed a fast increase in research on hydrogel exploration, including polymer gels (chemical gels) with bio-orthogonal cross-linking and hydrogels (mostly physical gels) composed of biomolecules such as short peptides, proteins, (poly)saccharides, and nucleic acids. In particular, hydrogels containing different polysaccharide- and protein-based materials enable new potential applications in drug delivery, wound healing, tissue engineering, and biosensors. This Special Issue will explore the design, synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of hydrogel systems in a variety of applications. Considering your leading contributions in this field, I would like to cordially invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue. This Special Issue will publish full research papers, communications, and review articles, with the aim to create a collection of comprehensive articles from leading experts and up-to-date research from notable groups in the community.
Topics of interest in this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Synthesis of hydrogel materials and characterization;
- The combination of hydrogels with new processing technologies;
- Additive manufacturing in hydrogels;
- Hydrogel materials in biomedical fields;
- Hydrogel materials in biosensing;
- Hydrogel materials in energy sectors.
Dr. Jamileh Shojaeiarani
Dr. Alimohammad Shirzadifar
Dr. Ghazal Vahidi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogel
- additive manufacturing
- drug delivery systems
- wound dressing
- tissue engineering
- smart hydrogel
- energy storage
- biosensors
- stimuli-responsive hydrogels
