Hydrogels in Drug Delivery

Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges

Alejandro J. Paredes, Eneko Larrañeta, Garry Laverty, Ryan F. Donnelly

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443220180
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges presents the latest advances in hydrogels, ranging from their basic chemistry to specific application of existing and novel hydrogels in controlled drug delivery and biomedicine. Hydrogels have been increasingly used in the development of novel formulations in a wide variety of therapeutic and monitoring applications. Multidisciplinary work carried out by researchers working in synthetic chemistry, drug delivery, biomedicine and other fields has 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, and simplifying patient monitoring by reducing the invasiveness of current methods.Hydrogels in Drug Delivery is an essential resource for graduate students and researchers working within drug delivery and synthetic chemistry, biomedicine, material science, pharmacology, and chemical engineering. - Covers the fundamental mechanisms of drug delivery from a hydrophilic matrix - Breaks down interconnections between introductory theory and applied materials chapters - Includes experimental pictures and links to multimedia features including videos and slides

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 Synthesis and chemistry of hydrogels
• Chapter 2 Characterization techniques of hydrogels in healthcare
• Chapter 3 Molecularly imprinted hydrogels in drug delivery
• Chapter 4 Peptide and protein-like hydrogels, synthesis, and applications in biomedicine
• Chapter 5 Stimuli responsive hydrogels in drug delivery and biomedicine
• Chapter 6 Hydrogel-forming microarray patches for drug delivery and diagnostic applications
• Chapter 7 Injectable depot-forming hydrogels for long-acting drug delivery
• Chapter 8 Hydrogels for vaginal drug delivery and other applications
• Chapter 9 In situ gel forming formulations for topical drug delivery
• Chapter 10 The use of hydrogels in oral drug delivery
• Chapter 11 3D printed hydrogels: A promising material for biomedical applications
• Chapter 12 Hydrogels and their application in tissue regeneration
• Chapter 13 The role of hydrogels in wound healing
• Index