TY - CHAP AU - Morteza Bahram AU - Naimeh Mohseni AU - Mehdi Moghtader ED - Sutapa Biswas Majee Y1 - 2016-08-24 PY - 2016 T1 - An Introduction to Hydrogels and Some Recent Applications N2 - This book is an Up-to-date and authoritative account on physicochemical principles, pharmaceutical and biomedical applications of hydrogels. It consists of eight contributions from different authors highlighting properties and synthesis of hydrogels, their characterization by various instrumental methods of analysis, comprehensive review on stimuli-responsive hydrogels and their diverse applications, and a special section on self-healing hydrogels. Thus, this book will equip academia and industry with adequate basic and applied principles related to hydrogels. BT - Emerging Concepts in Analysis and Applications of Hydrogels SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64301 DO - 10.5772/64301 SN - 978-953-51-2510-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -