Antimicrobial Hydrogels
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Chemistry and Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 25989
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogels; biomaterials; bioprinting; microfluidics; wound dressing; tissue engineering
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Interests: hydrogel; cellulose; 3D bioprinting; wound dressing; tissue engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on “Antimicrobial Hydrogels” is dedicated to recent developments from theoretical and fundamental aspects to the synthesis, characterization, and applications of antimicrobial hydrogels. Within this context, a broad range of subjects, including the materials, structure, manufacture technology, theory and applications, will be discussed.
Hydrogel is a kind of polymer with a three-dimensional network structure, which can keep its original structure without being dissolved after swelling. Hydrogels can be formed by the copolymerization of different hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers. Due to their good biocompatibility, hydrogels are widely used as excellent biomedical materials, such as drug carriers, tissue scaffolds, and wound dressings which can maintain a moist environment and are useful for sustained drug delivery for wound repair and act as a barrier against exogenous bacteria. Hydrogels are used in combination with different types of antibiotics for wound dressings to accelerate wound healing. As such, there is wide interest in antibacterial hydrogels because of their dual functions of both hydrogel and antibacterial performance.
Therefore, this Special Issue of Gels, Antimicrobial Hydrogels, serves to provide a platform for researchers to report results and findings in recent advances in antimicrobial hydrogels and antimicrobial hydrogel-based composites.
Dr. Feng Cheng
Dr. Hongbin Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogel
- antibacterial
- synthesis and characterization
- wound dressing
- tissue engineering
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