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List of contents
Calcium Phosphate-Reinforced Polyester Nanocomposites for Bone Regeneration Applications. Biodegradable Nanocomposites for Imaging, Tissue-Repairing, and Drug-Delivery Applications. Electrospun Nanostructures as Biodegradable Composite Materials for Biomedical Applications. Starch-Based Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications. Polylactic Acid-Based Bionanocomposites: A State-of-the-Art Review Report. Tissue Engineering Researches on Biodegradable Polymer Nanocomposites: Designing Concepts, Properties, and Perspectives. Biocomposites and Hybrid Biomaterials of Calcium Orthophosphates with Polymers. Curcumin-Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticle: A Promising Route for the Treatment of Cancer. Plastics of the Future: Innovations for Improvement and Sustainability with Special Relevance to Biomedical Applications. Biomedical Applications of Microbial Cellulose Nanocomposites.
About the author
Dr. Dilip Depan is a research scientist in the Chemical Engineering Department and has been teaching undergraduate courses at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He earned his PhD from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, in 2009. Dr. Depan has an extensive research background in the modification and characterization of biomaterial surface for various biomedical applications. His recent research focuses on bone–biomaterial interaction, tissue engineering 3-D scaffolds, dental materials, nanomedicine, and engineering education.
Summary
Biomaterials based on polymers perform a time-limited function, but being foreign, they should disappear from the body once that function has been fulfilled. A wide range of polymers have been considered for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, biosensors, and tissue engineering.
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"Being an outcome of many research efforts precisely combined, this book will appeal to students, academic researchers, biomedical engineers and industrial experts in the field."—Pratheep K. Annamalai, The University of Queensland
"This is a timely written book and the main theme is really innovative and exciting. It will be of great interest to several disciplines ranging from engineering, biochemistry, polymer chemistry and chemical engineering disciplines to name a few."—Vijay Kumar Thakur, Washington State University
"The material was surprisingly accessible to someone like myself, who has a background in biology and is not well versed in biomaterials. The high-quality illustrations supported the text very well, illustrating important concepts such as fabrication principles, differential polymerization under various conditions, differences in outcomes based on variations of materials used, and applications of nanocomposites."—Karen Müller Smith, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"This volume is highly recommended to all individuals, from both academia and industry, with interests that involve the application of polymeric materials in biomedical therapeutic applications." —Carbohydrate Polymers, April 2016
