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Advanced Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Volume 5 - Issue 1

Sameer Joshi, Komal Vig and Shree R Singh*

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    • Center for NanoBiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, USA

    *Corresponding author: Shree R Singh, Center for NanoBiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 36016

Received: May 24, 2018;   Published: May 30, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.05.001144

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Abstract

Gels or hydrogels are described as the matrix of cross-linked polymers. Hydrogels are naturally a part of the body in the form of collagen, gelatin, mucous, tear films, cartilage, vitreous humor, cornea, and tendon. Collagen, gelatin, and nanofillers can be used to modify the strength of hydrogels. Use of biodegradable hydrogel scaffold is ideal for tissue regeneration, where the scaffold degrades as the tissue regeneration occurs. The hydrogel can be lone or composition of fundamental properties such as edible, non-edible, biodegradable, non-biodegradable, injectable, topical, natural, synthetic, physically crosslinked, chemically cross-linked. During past three decades hydrogels due to various factors such as biodegradable, absorbent, tissue resemblance and easy use, have received the enormous attention from researchers around the globe. Although hydrogels have become part of a variety of industries but quest for biomedical application of hydrogels is ongoing. This review addresses the recent advances in different forms of hydrogels and their biomedical use.

Keywords: Hydrogel; Biomedical; Biodegradable; Polymer; Cross-linked

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