Full Description
Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Inorganic Micro- and Nanostructures presents recent, specific insights in new progress, along with new perspectives for inorganic micro- and nano-particles. The main focus of this book is on biomedical applications of these materials and how their biological properties are linked to various synthesis methods and their source of raw materials. Recent information regarding optimized synthesis methods to obtain improved nano- and microparticles for biomedical use, as well as the most important biomedical applications of these materials, such as the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, are highlighted in detail.
Contents
1. Biomedical inorganic nanoparticles: preparation, properties and perspectives
2. Inorganic composites in biomedical engineering
3. Structural interpretation, microstructure characterization, mechanical properties and cytocompatibility study of pure and doped carbonated nanocrystalline hydroxyapatites synthesized by mechanical alloying
4. Multiparticle composites based on nanostructurized arsenic sulfides As4S4 in biomedical engineering
5. Quaternary ammonium compound derivatives for biomedical applications
6. Block copolymer micelles as nanoreactors for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles
7. Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
8. Multimodal magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications: importance of characterization on biomimetic in vitro models
9. Aluminosilicate-based composites functionalized with cationic materials: possibilities for drug delivery applications
10. Bioactive glass nanofibers for tissue engineering
11. Application of (mixed) metal oxides-based nanocomposites for biosensors
12. Metal nanoparticles and their composites: a promising multifunctional nanomaterials for biomedical and related applications
13. Hybrid metal complex nanocomposites for targeted cancer diagnosis and therapeutics
14. Nanocoatings and thin films
