Hydrogel Fibers
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 2362
Special Issue Editor
Interests: 3D/4D bioprinting; hydrogel
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogel fibers with size from nano to macro scales have attracted great interest for their applications in various fields including materials science, sensing and biomedical engineering. Owing to the features of biomimetic extracellular matrix, hydrogel fibers and hydrogel fibers based meshes and scaffolds showed the potential application for tissue engineering and regeneration medicine, such as wound healing and cartilage repair. Tailoring the multi-scale and hierarchical architecture of the hydrogel fibers enables the improved characteristics and novel application of the hydrogel fibers and fibrous meshes. For example, the hydrogel fibers with ordered orientation, core/shell and hollow channels structures showed the capability of improved mechanical properties and controlled drug delivery. The components, hierarchical structure, properties, and applications of the hydrogel fibers and fibrous meshes need more detailed discussion and understanding. Therefore, with this Special Issue of “hydrogel fibers”, a broad range of subjects, including the techniques for preparing hydrogel fibers and fibrous meshes and constructs, hierarchical structures and novel architectures of the hydrogel fibers, surface modification, improved properties, and the potential applications of the hydrogel fibers and fibrous meshes and scaffolds will be covered.
Since it is impossible to cover all aspects of hydrogel fibers and fibers based three-dimensional meshes in one issue, this Special Issue will contain a few representative examples. It is hoped that the topics will stimulate new research and discoveries in the field of hydrogel fibers and fibrous meshes and broaden their applications.
Dr. Yongxiang Luo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hydrogel fibers
- core-shell fibers
- fibrous meshes
- oriented structures
- properties
- modification
- applications