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Advances in Polymeric Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

  • 1st Edition - March 17, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Anil Kumar Bajpai, Rajesh Kumar Saini
  • Language: English

Advances in Polymeric Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications examines advanced polymer synthetic strategies for developing novel biomaterials for use in medicine. With a strong… Read more

Description

Advances in Polymeric Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications examines advanced polymer synthetic strategies for developing novel biomaterials for use in medicine. With a strong focus on fundamentals and structure, the authors also explore their fabrication, along with their current and potential biomedical applications. The book begins with a look at the fundamentals of polymeric nanomaterials and their properties and then discusses the design of biomaterials and their applications in drug delivery. Further chapters explore important applications, such as imaging and regenerative medicine, including current challenges and future trends.

This valuable resource is especially useful for materials and polymer scientists, and bioengineers wishing to broaden their knowledge of polymeric nanobiomaterials.

Key features

  • Covers the complete spectrum of polymer nanomaterials used in biomedical applications
  • Includes various applications, such as drug delivery, gene delivery, bio-imaging, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, anti-microbial agents, and neuroscience
  • Explores fundamental correlations between structures, properties and applications, as well as synthetic strategies for polymer nanomaterials

Readership

Materials and Polymer Scientists, Biomedical engineers, materials chemists, and researchers working on nanomaterials, especially those with healthcare applications

Table of contents

1. Fundamentals of polymeric nanomaterials

2. Synthesis of polymer nanomaterials, mechanisms, and their structural control

3. Polymeric nanomaterials in drug delivery

4. Nanostructures in gene delivery

5. Dendrimer-based nanoformulations as drug carriers for cancer treatment

6. Polymer nanomaterials in bioimaging

7. Polymeric nanoparticles used in tissue engineering

8. Polymeric nanomaterials as broad-spectrum antimicrobial compounds

9. Polymeric nanomaterials for targeting the cellular suborganelles

10. Polymeric nanomaterials in neuroscience

11. Polymeric nanomaterials for ocular drug delivery

12. Current and future challenges in polymeric nanomaterials for biomedical applications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 17, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Anil Kumar Bajpai

Anil Kumar Bajpai M.Sc. (Chemistry), Ph.D. (Polymer chemistry), D.Sc. (Adsorption of plasma proteins on polymer surfaces) has 28 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research experience. He is currently head of the Bose Memorial Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Autonomous Science College, Jabalpur, India. His areas of expertise include synthesis of biomedical polymers, drug delivery through nanocarriers, nanocomposites, stimuli responsive drug delivery systems, water remediation by nanoparticles, conducting polymers. Bajpai has been the lead author of one book as well as contributed several chapters. He has written more than 220 papers for international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Bose Memorial Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Autonomous Science College, Jabalpur, India

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Rajesh Kumar Saini

Rajesh Kumar Saini completed his PhD in Polymer chemistry in 2008. He has written over 30 papers and 11 chapters for books. Saini is currently a Research Scholar at Bose Memorial Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Govt.Auto.Science College, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Bose Memorial Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Autonomous.Science College, India

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