Integrated Biomaterials for Biomedical Technology: 6 (Biomedical Science, Engineering, and Technology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118423852 ISBN 13: 9781118423851

Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener, 2012

Synopsis

This cutting edge book provides all the important aspects dealing with the basic science involved in materials in biomedical technology, especially structure and properties, techniques and technological innovations in material processing and characterizations, as well as the applications.

The volume consists of 12 chapters written by acknowledged experts of the biomaterials field and covers a wide range of topics and applications including:

• The different types of nanobiomaterials
• How to generate porous biomaterials for tissue engineering
• Calcium phosphate-based biomaterials intended for mineralized tissue regenerative applications
• Nanocrystalline form of calcium phosphates
• Design and fabrication of SiO2 nanoparticles
• New kinds of titanium alloy implants
• Injectable growth factor system based on bone morphogenetic proteins
• Impedance sensing of biological processes in mammalian cells
• Hydrogels-based implantable glucose sensors
• Molecular design of multifunctional polymers for gene transfection
• Hydrogels and their potential biomedical applications
• Hybrid biomaterials with high mechanical and biological properties

About this title

About the Author

About the Editors
Murugan Ramalingam is an Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U977, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université de Strasbourg (UdS), France. Concurrently, he holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the Tohoku University, Japan.

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Assistant Professor of Nanobioelectronics at Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM, Linköping University, Sweden, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Letters.

Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, FNAE, FAIMBE, is the Director of HEM Labs at the National University of Singapore. He has authored five books and over 400 international journal papers, which have garnered more than 14,000 citations.

Hisatoshi Kobayashi is a group leader of WPI Research center MANA, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan. He is currently the President of the International Association of Advanced Materials.

From the Back Cover

This cutting edge book provides all the important aspects dealing with the basic science involved in materials in biomedical technology, especially structure and properties, techniques and technological innovations in material processing and characterizations, as well as the applications.

The volume consists of 12 chapters written by acknowledged experts of the biomaterials field and covers a wide range of topics and applications including:

• The different types of nanobiomaterials
• How to generate porous biomaterials for tissue engineering
• Calcium phosphate-based biomaterials intended for mineralized tissue regenerative applications
• Nanocrystalline form of calcium phosphates
• Design and fabrication of SiO2 nanoparticles
• New kinds of titanium alloy implants
• Injectable growth factor system based on bone morphogenetic proteins
• Impedance sensing of biological processes in mammalian cells
• Hydrogels-based implantable glucose sensors
• Molecular design of multifunctional polymers for gene transfection
• Hydrogels and their potential biomedical applications
• Hybrid biomaterials with high mechanical and biological properties

Audience
The book is intended for a wide audience including students, researchers, professors, and industrial experts working in the fields of biomaterials, materials science and engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, bioengineering, biomedical sciences, and tissue engineering.

From the Inside Flap

This cutting edge book provides all the important aspects dealing with the basic science involved in materials in biomedical technology, especially structure and properties, techniques and technological innovations in material processing and characterizations, as well as the applications.

The volume consists of 12 chapters written by acknowledged experts of the biomaterials field and covers a wide range of topics and applications including:

• The different types of nanobiomaterials
• How to generate porous biomaterials for tissue engineering
• Calcium phosphate-based biomaterials intended for mineralized tissue regenerative applications
• Nanocrystalline form of calcium phosphates
• Design and fabrication of SiO2 nanoparticles
• New kinds of titanium alloy implants
• Injectable growth factor system based on bone morphogenetic proteins
• Impedance sensing of biological processes in mammalian cells
• Hydrogels-based implantable glucose sensors
• Molecular design of multifunctional polymers for gene transfection
• Hydrogels and their potential biomedical applications
• Hybrid biomaterials with high mechanical and biological properties

Audience
The book is intended for a wide audience including students, researchers, professors, and industrial experts working in the fields of biomaterials, materials science and engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, bioengineering, biomedical sciences, and tissue engineering.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118423852
• ISBN 13: 9781118423851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Ramalingam Murugan, Tiwari Ashutosh, Ramakrishna Seeram, Kobayashi Hisatoshi