Description
Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels: Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications provides acomprehensive text on hydrogels and their biomedical uses, covering both fundamental and applied aspects of hydrogels. Hydrogels are three-dimensional network of cross-linked polymers or particles that contain a large amount of water. They have received tremendous attention for applications in biomedicines, which has led to significant progress in the design and engineering of the hydrogels to meet the needs for such applications.The book covers the recent developments that have been made in this field, including new applications of hydrogels, providing a new and fresh overview of hydrogels and their applications.Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels: Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications is valuableto upper level undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and progressors teaching fundamental and applied aspects of hydrogels.- Provides a complete description for design approaches, synthetic strategies, and their characterizations- Covers responsive hydrogels from the synthesis and application point-of-view- Evaluates modern techniques to prepare hydrogels and their characterizations
Table of Contents
Part I - Fundamental Aspects of Hydrogels1. Introduction of hydrogels2. Properties of Hydrogels3. Modern Approaches for the Fabrication of hydrogels: Chemical and Physical Crosslinking4. Characterizations of Hydrogels5. Hydrogels Degradation6. Hydrogels ModificationPart II – Synthetic and Natural Derived Hydrogels7. Hydrogels from Synthetic Polymers8. Hydrogels based on natural polysaccharides9. Peptide based hydrogels10. Protein Hydrogels11. Composite hydrogels12. Extracellular Matrix (ECM) based HydrogelsPart III – Types of Hydrogels13. Responsive Hydrogels: Temperature, light, pH, etc14. Double Network Hydrogels15. Injectable Hydrogels16. Self-Healing Hydrogels17. Shape Memory Hydrogels18. Self-Assembling hydrogels19. Microgels and NanogelsPart IV - Applications of hydrogels20. Hydrogels in Cell and Tissue Engineering (fundamental asp21. Hydrogels as Nucleic Acid Therapeutics22. Hydrogels for Drug Delivery23. Hydrogels for 3D Printing24. Hydrogels in Sensing25. Hydrogels for Wound Dressing26. Commercially Available and Recently Approved Hydrogels for Clinical Applications
