**Meet the editors**

Dr. Sajjad Haider is an associate professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since May 2009. He received his MSc degree in 1999; MPhil degree in 2004 from the Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan; and PhD degree in 2009 from the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook Na-

tional University, Daegu, South Korea. His research work focuses on the development of carbon nanotubes and biopolymer composites, polymer hydrogel, and electrospun nanofibers for environmental and biomedical applications.

Dr. Adnan Haider is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Kohat University of Science and Technology. He received his MSc degree in 2010 from the Kohat University of Science and Technology, KPK, Pakistan; PhD degree in 2016 from the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea; and postdoctoral re-

search in 2017 from the Department of Nano, Medical and Polymer Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea. His research work focuses on the development of scaffolds using polymer hydrogel and electrospun nanofibers for biomedical (tissue regeneration and drug delivery) and environmental applications.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Properties 3**

Chapter 3 **Superabsorbent 45**

**Section 1 Bio and Synthetic Hydrogels 1**

Chapter 1 **Decellularized ECM-Derived Hydrogels: Modification and**

L. Mata-Mata and Birzabith Mendoza-Novelo

Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy

**Section 2 Biomedical Application of Hydrogel 89**

**of Oil Reservoirs 69**

Ángel Serrano-Aroca

Hortêncio Munhoz Junior

Chapter 6 **Hydrogels Fibers 121**

Chapter 2 **Hydrogels Based on Polyvinylpyrrolidone Copolymers 23** Oleh Suberlyak and Volodymyr Skorokhoda

Chapter 4 **Hydrogels Applied for Conformance-Improvement Treatment**

Javad Foroughi, Azadeh Mirabedini and Holly Warren

Chapter 7 **Obtaining Hydrogels based on PVP/PVAL/Chitosan Containing**

**Pseudoboehmite Nanoparticles for Application in Drugs 141** Leila Figueiredo de Miranda, Kátia Lucia Gonçalves Cunha, Isabella Tereza Ferro Barbosa, Terezinha Jocelen Masson and Antonio

Chapter 5 **Enhancement of Hydrogels' Properties for Biomedical Applications: Latest Achievements 91**

Jesús A. Claudio-Rizo, Jorge Delgado, Iraís A. Quintero-Ortega, José

Fernanda G. C. Tessarolli, Ailton S. Gomes and Claudia R. E. Mansur
