Diamond-Based Materials for Biomedical Applications. This item is unavailable.Diamond-Based Materials for Biomedical Applications

Carbon is light weight, strong, conductive and able to mimic natural materials within the body, making it ideal for many uses within biomedicine. Consequently a great deal of research and funding is being put into this interesting material with a view to increasing the variety of medical applications for which it is suitable. Diamond based materials for biomedical applications presents readers with the fundamental principles and novel applications of this versatile material. Part one provides a clear introduction to diamond based materials for medical applications, before part two goes on to review diamond based materials for such applications as orthopaedic applications, neural and ophthalmological applications, drug delivery systems, tissue regeneration and microfluidic devices.

Key Features: presents the fundamental principles and novel applications of this versatile material; discusses the functionalizationof diamond particles and surfaces, biotribology and biological behaviour of nanocrystalinediamond coatings and blood compatibility of diamond-like carbon coatings; reviews nanostructured diamond coatings for orthopaedic coatings.

Contents: Part 1 Introduction to diamond based materials for medical applications: Introduction to medical applications of diamond particles and surfaces; Functionalisation of diamond surfaces for medical applications; Biotribology and biological behaviour of nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) coatings for medical applications; Blood compatibility of diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings. Part 2 Biomedical applications of diamond based materials: Nanostructured diamond coatings for orthopaedic applications; Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films for ophthalmological applications; Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) for neural applications; Nanodiamonds for drug delivery systems; Diamond nucleation and seeding techniques for tissue regeneration; Diamond materials for microfluidic devices.

Roger Narayan is Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. The author of over one hundred publications as well as several book chapters on nanoscale and microscale processing, characterization, and modeling of biological and biomedical materials, Dr Narayan also serves as an editorial board member for several academic journals.