Injectable Hydrogels: A Paradigm Tailored with Design, Characterization and Multifaceted Approaches.

Biomaterials denoting self-healing and versatile structural integrity are highly curious in the biomedicine segment. The injectable and/or printable 3D (3 dimensional) printing technology was explored in a few decades back, which can alter their dimensions temporarily under shear stress, showing potential healing/recovery tendency with patient-specific intervention towards the development of personalized medicine. Thus, self-healing injectable hydrogels (IHs) are stunning towards developing a paradigm for tissue regeneration. The article comprises the designing of IHs, rheological characterization and stability, several benchmark consequences for self-healing IHs, their translation into tissue regeneration of specific types, applications of IHs in biomedical such as anticancer and immunomodulation, wound healing and tissue/bone regeneration, antimicrobial potentials, drugs, gene and vaccine delivery, ocular delivery, 3D printing, cosmeceuticals and photothermal therapy as well as in other allied avenues like agriculture, aerospace, electronic/electrical industries, coating approaches, patents associated with therapeutic/non-therapeutic avenues and numerous futuristic challenges and solutions. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.