Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials Series

1. Hydrogels for Wound Healing Applications: State-of-art, New Challenges, and Applications
Dr. Bratati Das, Dr. Hanna J. Maria, Professor Dr. Sabu Thomas
2. Types of Wounds and Causation Factors
Professor Irene A. Chen Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
3. Wound Healing Mechanisms and Strategies
Professor Arun Chattopadhyay Dept. of Chemistry & Centre for Nanotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
4. Gene and Stem Cell Therapies in Wound Healing
Professor Jingwei Xie Department of Surgery-Transplant and Mary and Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
5. Antimicrobial Hydrogels for Wound Healing Applications
Professor David Mooney Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Cambridge, MA, USA
6. Natural and Synthetic Polymer Hydrogels for Wound Dressing
Professor Achim M. Goepferich Department of Pharmaceutical Technology University of Regensburg Germany
7. Chitosan-based Hydrogels for Wound Dressing
Professor Alan E Tonelli Textile Engineering Chemistry and Science Fibre & Polymer Science Program, College of Textiles North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States.
8. Gelatin-based Hydrogels for Wound Dressing
Professor Weiyuan John?Kao Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
9. Peptide-Based Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Joel P. Schneider Chemical Biology Laboratory Center for Cancer Research NCI-Frederick, Maryland 21701, USA.
10. Collagen-based Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor François Berthod Laboratoire d'Organogenèse Expérimentale (LOEX) University of Laval, Quebec, Canada.
11. Glycosaminoglycan Hydrogel Films for Wound Healing
Professor Carsten?Werner Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden, Germany.
12. Sprayable Smart Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Paulo Jorge da Silva Bártolo School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering University of Manchester, UK.
13. Acellular Hydrogel-based Wound Dressings
Professor Dr. Sharon Gerecht Director, Institute for NanoBio Technology (INBT) Johns Hopkins University Baltimore.
14. Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Sidi A. Bencherif Department of Chemical Engineering Northeastern University Boston, USA.
15. Silver Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Thomas Jay Webster Department of Chemical Engineering North-eastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
16. Gold Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Prof. Dr. Marga C. Lensen Technische Universität Berlin Fakultät II, Institut für Chemie Nanostrukturierte Biomaterialien Berlin.
17. Design and Mechanism of Metal Oxide/Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels in Wound Healing
Professor Gudrun Schmidt Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. Professor Luisa De Cola Université de Strasbourg Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS), France.
18. ZnO/Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Ulrich Jonas Macromolecular Chemistry Department Chemistry - Biology University of Siegen Germany.
19. CuO/Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Bradley D. Olsen Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
20. TiO2/Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Bruno F. Urbano Department of Polymers, Faculty of Chemical Science University of Concepcion, Chile.
21. MgO/Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Eko Supriyanto Director of IJN-UTM Cardiovascular Engineering Centre Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia.
22. Iron Oxide/Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor J. Zach Hilt Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, USA.
23. Bioactive Glass/Polymer Composite Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor A.R.?Boccaccini Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Cauerst.6, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
24. Tunable Hydrogels for Accelerated Wound Healing
Professor Kristi S. Anseth Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
25. Injectable Self-healing Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Rachel Auzély-Velty Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV)-CNRS, Grenoble Cedex 9 France.
26. Antioxidant Hydrogels in Chronic Wound Treatment
Professor Jason A. Burdick Department of Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania.
27. Hydrogel-based Strategies for Diabetic Wounds
Professor Kathryn A. Whitehead Department of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
28. 3D-printed Hydrogels for Wound Dressing
Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez Department of Biomedical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, USA
29. Drug-loaded Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Todd Hoare Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
30. Immunomodulatory Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Nasim Annabi Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
31. Hydrogels for Burn Dressings and Skin Substitutes
Professor Giuseppe Tronci Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Group School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
32. Hydrogel-based Commercial Products for Wound Healing
Professor Vitality V.?Khutoryanskiy School of Pharmacy, University of Reading Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AD, United Kingdom
33. Clinical Status of Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Joachim P. Spatz Department of Cellular Biophysics Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg, Germany.
34. Toxicity Aspects of Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Dr. Robert Rieben University of Bern Department for Bio Medical Research Bern, Switzerland.
35. Future Scope and Challenges of Hydrogels for Wound Healing
Professor Emanual Maverakis, Department of Dermatology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, USA.

Prof. Sabu Thomas is the Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, India. He also serves as the Chairman of Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park (TrESPARK) in Kerala, India. Formerly, he was the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. His ground-breaking research has covered the areas of polymer science and engineering, polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites and nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. Prof. Thomas has received several national and international awards in recognition for his work and recently received Honoris Causa (DSc) from the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France, in recognition for his contributions to polymer science and engineering. Prof. Thomas has published more than 1400 peer-reviewed research papers, reviews, and book chapters. He has also edited and written 210 books. His H-index stands at 139, accompanied by a citation count of 43,000.
Dr. Bratati Das is a postdoctoral fellow at International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IIUCNN), under Prof. Sabu Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottyam, Kerala, India. She obtained her doctoral degree in Material Science in 2019 from Visva-Bharati University, India. She obtained her M.Sc. degree in Physics from West Bengal State University. In this period, she carried out a project on synthesis of gold nanoparticles as Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy active substrate. She has 5 publications in various international journals. During her Ph.D. period she received the UGC NET award from the Council of Scientific Research, India, for her research.
Dr. Hanna J. Maria is a Senior Researcher at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. She previously held postdoctoral r