Guest Editors
Xuming Xie, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Dr.Xie graduated with B. Eng from Shinshu University, Japan in 1985. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1987 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 1992, he worked as a research scientist at Kawasaki Plastics Laboratory, Showa Denko, Ltd. (Japan). He has worked at Tsinghua University since 1992, and has been a full professor since 1999. He is interested in areas such as 1) Super tough and highly stretchable hydrogels 2) Modification and assembly of nanomaterials and their nanocomposites 3) Structure control and properties of multiphase polymer systems 4) Recycling and renewable of waste plastics 5) Polymer grafting and modification 6) Confined crystallization and phase separation of polymer systems. He awarded JSPS Visiting Professor Fellowship in 1999 and Georgy. T. Piercy Distinguished Visiting Professor award from Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Materials, University of Minnesota (USA) in 2002. He was also invited as a visiting professor in Chuo University, Japan in 2005. In 2007 and 2018 He obtained the “Feng Xinde Polymer Prize” respectively from ELSEVIER. He has published more than 230 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He also holds 22 Chinese, European and/or US patents which have been approved or disclosed.
Baolin Guo, Professor, the Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Dr. Baolin Guo got his Ph.D degree in 2011 at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. From 2011, he joined the Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Baolin Guo is now a professor and group leader of biomedical polymers, and he has published more than 80 papers (cited >6000 times) with him as the first author and corresponding author, such as Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Biomaterials, Chemistry of Materials, Small, and Macromolecules. He owns 20 ESI highly cited papers, and 9 ESI hot papers in Web of Science. His research interests are polymeric biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery system, particularly in the areas of conductive biomaterials for regenerative medicine, wound healing and hemostat. He is the recipient of Distinguished Young Scholars Award of Shaanxi Province. He serves as referee for more than 30 international journals.
Qiang Chen, Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, China
Dr. Qiang Chen is a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering at Henan Polytechnic University. He received a B.S. degree from Henan University in 2004 and a Ph.D. from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He was a research scholar at The University of Akron in 2012-2013. His current research mainly focuses on the development of tough and functional hydrogels for tissue adhesives, wound healings, coatings of biomedical devices and flexible electronics. He has published more than 65 papers in peer-reviewed journals (cited > 2500 times). He serves as referee for more than 20 international journals.
Summary
Biomass is renewable resource, including polysaccharides, proteins and DNAs, which is easily obtained from various plants, microorganisms as well as some animals. Hydrogels are physically or chemically cross-linked polymeric or supramolecular materials, containing of a large amount of water in their three-dimensional network structure. In recent years, biomass-derived hydrogels have attracted great interests because of their potential applications in many fields, such as biomedical engineering, food engineering, drug delivery, adsorption, solar water purification, flexible electronic and energy storage device, and so on.
The Special Issue “Biomass-Derived Functional Hydrogels” covers research in fundamental and application of biomass-derived hydrogels. It focuses on recent progress of the preparation, network structure, responsive properties and functional applications of biomass-derived hydrogels. The scope of interests includes but is not limited to the following topics:
(1) Preparation and Characterization of Biomass-Derived Hydrogels
(2) High Performance Biomass-Derived Hydrogels
(3) Smart and Responsive Biomass-Derived Hydrogels
(4) Biomass-Derived Hydrogels for Flexible Electronics and Energy Storage Devices
(5) Biomass-Derived Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications or Drug Delivery
(6) Biomass-Derived Hydrogels for Food Engineering
(7) Biomass-Derived Hydrogels for Water Treatment
(8) Biomass-Derived Hydrogels for Other Applications
Keywords
Biomass; Hydrogels; Polysaccharide; Protein
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