Hydrogels in drug delivery and biomedicine: advances in the manufacture, characterization, and application of hydrogels to address current global healthcare challenges

Alejandro J. Paredes* (Editor), Eneko Larrañeta (Editor), Garry Laverty (Editor), Ryan F. Donnelly (Editor)

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Abstract

Hydrogels have been increasingly used in the development of novel formulations with application in a wide variety of therapeutic and monitoring purposes. Multidisciplinary work carried out by researchers working in synthetic chemistry, drug delivery, biomedicine and other fields led to the development of novel polymers enabling the preparation of hydrogels with adjustable physicochemical properties. Accordingly, these materials offer multiple advantages over other drug delivery systems, including an increased patient compliance by reducing the required number of medication doses, reducing the healing time in injuries, or simplifying patient monitoring by reducing the invasiveness of currently available methods.

Hydrogels in drug delivery: Advances in the manufacture, characterization, and application of hydrogels to address current global healthcare challenges covers in a bottom-up approach a number of topics ranging from the basic chemistry of hydrogels to specific application of existent and novel hydrogels in controlled drug delivery and biomedicine.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherElsevier Inc.
Number of pages300
ISBN (Electronic)9780443220180
ISBN (Print)9780443220173
Publication statusAccepted - 14 Feb 2023

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