Advanced Healthcare Materials
Advance Materials Series
1. Edition July 2014
560 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on advanced materials for healthcare technology and applications
Advanced healthcare materials are attracting strong interest in fundamental as well as applied medical science and technology. This book summarizes the current state of knowledge in the field of advanced materials for functional therapeutics, point-of-care diagnostics, translational materials, and up-and-coming bioengineering devices. Advanced Healthcare Materials highlights the key features that enable the design of stimuli-responsive smart nanoparticles, novel biomaterials, and nano/micro devices for either diagnosis or therapy, or both, called theranostics. It also presents the latest advancements in healthcare materials and medical technology.
The senior researchers from global knowledge centers have written topics including:
* State-of-the-art of biomaterials for human health
* Micro- and nanoparticles and their application in biosensors
* The role of immunoassays
* Stimuli-responsive smart nanoparticles
* Diagnosis and treatment of cancer
* Advanced materials for biomedical application and drug delivery
* Nanoparticles for diagnosis and/or treatment of Alzheimers disease
* Hierarchical modelling of elastic behavior of human dental tissue
* Biodegradable porous hydrogels
* Hydrogels in tissue engineering, drug delivery, and wound care
* Modified natural zeolites
* Supramolecular hydrogels based on cyclodextrin poly(pseudo)rotaxane
* Polyhydroxyalkanoate-based biomaterials
* Biomimetic molecularly imprinted polymers
written for university students and researchers from diverse
backgrounds, I believe having read the majority of the scientific
aspects of the work it really expects the reader to have a very
thorough knowledge of polymer chemistry at the nanometer level of
particle or pore size and suggest this book is aimed at the
researchers in the pharmaceutical industry or academics in
pharmaceutical chemistry research rather than researchers into
biomaterials." (Scope, 1 February 2014)
Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University,
Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters;
Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials;
a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics at
Linköping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350
articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of
materials science and technology and has edited/authored more than
fifteen books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials
science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World
Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.
