Antibacterial Gels
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 January 2024) | Viewed by 16510
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial polymers and hydrogels; nanomedicine; drug delivery
Interests: alternative to antibiotics; host pathogen interactions; innate immunity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are warmly invited to contribute to this Special Issue called “Antibacterial Gels”.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused numerous deaths and an economic burden worldwide. Despite the huge progress in medical fields, it is crystal clear that the pandemic caused by infectious pathogens can still post severe threats to public health even in the 21st century. What makes the situation even worse is the increased cases of multiple drug-resistant pathogens, while the investment and discovery pace of new antibiotics has been slowed down due to low profit and higher approval standards for new antibiotics. Therefore, it is urgently needed to investigate and develop new materials and tools for treating existing drug-resistant pathogens and be well-prepared for future potential pandemics.
Different from small conventional antibiotics, antimicrobial gels are promising for treating infectious pathogens in terms of their tunable physicochemical properties. Cutting-edge antimicrobial gels can be engineered from the molecular level to the material level to obtain materials with good biocompatibility, excellent antibacterial activity, as well as adjustable degradability, and mechanical properties.
This Special Issue will provide the latest views in the field of antimicrobial gels. Therefore, contents are supposed to be related to the formation of antimicrobial gels to address the issues related to infectious pathogens or drug resistance. For example, you can choose topics about the synthesis and characterization of antimicrobial gels or antimicrobial mechanism study of gels; In addition, thorough review papers or communications on antimicrobial gels are also encouraged.
Dr. Yanmiao Fan
Dr. Soumitra Mohanty
Dr. Philippe Lavalle
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- antimicrobial gels
- synthesis and characterization
- drug delivery
- infectious virus, bacteria, fungi, and parasites
- biomedicine
- host antimicrobial peptides
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