Smart Polymer Materials for Biomedical Applications

by Li, Songjun; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Prabaharan, Mani; Aryal, Santosh

• ISBN13: 9781608761920
• ISBN10: 1608761924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

Smart polymers for biomedical applications are presently one focuses in biomedical materials research. Smart polymers are becoming increasingly more prevalent as scientists learn about the chemistry and triggers that induce conformational changes in polymer structures and devise ways to take advantage of, and control them. New polymeric materials are being chemically formulated that sense specific environmental changes in biological systems, and adjust in a predictable manner, making them useful tools for drug delivery, tissue engineering, biosensor design, wound healing and other metabolic control mechanisms. In this relatively new area of biotechnology, many advances are made in the recent years, but no latest books or edited collections have well summarised the recent advances. This book is the only book that has latest research developments on smart-polymeric materials for biomedical applications which include drug delivery, tissue engineering, biosensors, wound healing and many other allied fields.

Table of Contents

Preface

Molecular Imprinting: a Biomimetic Tool for Highly Selective Separation, Sensing & Catalysis

pH-Responsive Redox Copolymers Based on Chitosan-co-Polyaniline for Biosensor Applications

Polysaccharides/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Based Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels as Novel Biomaterials

'On/Off'-Switched Molecular Recognition by a Smart Aminopurine-Imprinted Polymer

Thermosensitive Polymers for Controlled Delivery of Protein Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The Preparation, Characterization & Application of pH-sensitive Materials

Smart Polymeric Materials Emerging for Biological Applications

Smart Polymeric Electrospun Nanofiber for Biological Applications

Specific Adsorption & Bio-mimetic Recognition by Imprinted Structures: Kinetic Tracks & Thermodynamic analysis

Characterisation of a two-phase hydrogel system for a potential wound healing application

pH-Sensitive siRNA Tripartite DHBC Micelles as Controlled Delivery Systems for Primary Dendritic Cells

Stimuli Responsive Polymeric Micelles for Drug Delivery Purposes

Supramolecular Hydrogels on Biomedical Application

Magnetically Responsive Nanostructured Polymers in Controlled & Targeted Drug Delivery

Smart polymers for biomedical applications & graft synthesis by g-rays

Chitin & chitosan: The Unique smart biomaterials for biomedical applications

Cross-linked Self-assemblies for drug delivery

Application of Smart Polymers in drug delivery

Index

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