Synthesis of Hydrogels and Their Progress in Environmental Remediation and Antimicrobial Application

Mengshan Song; Jingfeng Wang; Jiabei He; Dongxiao Kan; Kaiyun Chen; Jialu Lu

doi:10.3390/gels9010016

Synthesis of Hydrogels and Their Progress in Environmental Remediation and Antimicrobial Application

Gels. 2022 Dec 26;9(1):16. doi: 10.3390/gels9010016.

Authors

Mengshan Song¹, Jingfeng Wang¹, Jiabei He¹, Dongxiao Kan¹, Kaiyun Chen¹, Jialu Lu²

Affiliations

¹ Advanced Materials Research Central, Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, Xi'an 710016, China.
² Shanghai Key Laboratory of Special Artificial Microstructure Materials and Technology, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.

Abstract

As a kind of efficient adsorptive material, hydrogel has a wide application prospect within different fields, owing to its unique 3D network structures composed of polymers. In this paper, different synthetic strategies, crosslinking methods and their corresponding limitations and outstanding contributions of applications in the fields of removing environmental pollutants are reviewed to further provide a prospective view of their applications in water resources sustainability. Furthermore, the applications within the biomedical field, especially in wound dressing, are also reviewed in this paper, mainly due to their unique water retention ability, antibacterial ability, and good biocompatibility. Finally, the development direction of hydrogels in the fields of environmental remediation and biomedicine were summarized and prospected.

Keywords: adsorption; antibacterial properties; hydrogels; synthesis.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This research was funded by Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research (YK2020-7, YK2114, YK2107 and YK1904) and National Science Basic Research Plan in the Shaanxi Province of China (2022JQ-521 and 2022JQ-012).