1. Edition - September 2006
155.- Euro
2006. XXI, 519 Pages, Hardcover
176 Fig. (23 Colored Fig.), 13 Tab. 
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-31389-3
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31389-1 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim







Sample Chapter



Short description
Collecting the knowledge on how to bring nanomaterials and strategies together for assembling functional and structural artificial tissues, this volume treats tissue engineering in a materials science context -- covering materials, strategies, technologies and biological effects.

From the contents
1 Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering: The Scaffold Based Approach (Lakshmi S. Nair, Subhabrata Bhattacharyya, and Cato T. Laurencin)
2 Polymeric Nanofibers in Tissue Engineering (Seow Hoon Saw, Karen Wang, Thomas Yong, and Seeram Ramakrishna)
3 Electrospinning Technology for Nanofibrous Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering (Wan-Ju Li, Rabie M. Shanti, and Rocky S. Tuan)
4 Nanofibrous Scaffolds and their Biological Effects (Laura A. Smith, Jonathan A. Beck, and Peter X. Ma)
5 Nanophase Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering (R. Murugan and Seeram Ramakrishna)
6 Orthopedic Tissue Engineering Using Nanomaterials (Michiko Sato and Thomas J. Webster)
7 Hydroxyapatite Nanocrystals as Bone Tissue Substitute (Norberto Roveri and Barbara Palazzo)
8 Magnetic Nanoparticles for Tissue Engineering (Akira Ito and Hiroyuki Honda)
9 Applications and Implications of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Tissue Engineering (Peter S. McFetridge and Matthias U. Nollert)
10 Nanoparticles for Cell Engineering - A Radical Concept (Beverly A. Rzigalinski, Igor Danelisen, Elizabeth T. Strawn, Courtney A. Cohen, and Chengya Liang)
11 Nanoparticles and Nanowires for Cellular Engineering (Jessica O. Winter)
12 Nanoengineering of Biomaterial Surfaces (Ashwath Jayagopal and V. Prasad Shastri)