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Polymeric Hydrogels: A Review of Recent Developments

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Hydrogels are special types of polymers that have enormous capacity to absorb large volumes of water. Hydrogels are natural as well as man-made. To suit to a type of an application, hydrogel can be modified to tailor made properties that can be exploited for natural, applied, and medical sciences. This chapter deals with the recent research done in the area of hydrogels, modified hydrogels, hydrogel composites, and nanocomposites. General trends of the thrust areas where hydrogels have prime role of importance were biomedical and health care. However, the other areas such as environmental aspects for the utility of hydrogels have also been an area of interest among researchers across the globe.

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Mishra, S.B., Mishra, A.K. (2016). Polymeric Hydrogels: A Review of Recent Developments. In: Kalia, S. (eds) Polymeric Hydrogels as Smart Biomaterials. Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25322-0_1

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