Editorial for the Special Issue “3D Printing of Gel-Based Materials (2nd Edition)”
Aitor Tejo-Otero · 2026
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Aitor Tejo-Otero opens a 2026 special issue of the journal Gels with an editor's tour of five papers on 3D printing with gels. Gels are soft nets that hold a lot of liquid. They act part solid and part fluid, which suits them for work in body-part printing, soft robots, drugs, and food.
Two review papers lead the set. One covers tragacanth-gum inks for printing living tissue, prized for holding water and being kind to cells. The other covers smart gels that react to heat, acid, or light for use in 4D printing. The research papers add a printed wound gel that senses acid by color shift while it gives out medicine, plus work on print methods for soft gels.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aitor Tejo-Otero |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3721 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |