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Biopolymeric Nanomaterials

Fundamentals and Applications

  • 1st Edition - September 24, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Shamsher S. Kanwar, Ashok Kumar Nadda, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Swati Sharma, Yassine Slimani
  • Language: English

Biopolymeric Nanomaterials: Fundamentals and Applications outlines the fundamental design concepts and emerging applications of biopolymeric nanomaterials. The book also provides… Read more

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Description

Biopolymeric Nanomaterials: Fundamentals and Applications outlines the fundamental design concepts and emerging applications of biopolymeric nanomaterials. The book also provides information on emerging applications of biopolymeric nanomaterials, including in biomedicine, manufacturing and water purification, as well as assessing their physical, chemical and biological properties. This is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and biomedical scientists who are seeking to increase their understanding of how polymeric nanomaterials are being used for a range of biomedical and industrial applications.

Biopolymeric nanomaterials refer to biocompatible nanomaterials, consisting of biopolymers, such as protein (silk, collagen, gelatin, β-casein, zein, and albumin), protein-mimicked polypeptides and polysaccharides (chitosan, alginate, pullulan, starch, and heparin). Biopolymeric nanomaterials may be used as i) delivery systems for bioactive compounds in food application, (ii) for delivery of therapeutic molecules (drugs and genes), or for (iii) tissue engineering.

Key features

  • Provides information on the design concepts and synthesis of biopolymeric nanomaterials in biomedical and industrial applications
  • Highlights the major properties and processing methods for biopolymeric nanomaterials
  • Assesses the major challenges of producing biopolymeric nanomaterials on an industrial scale

Readership

Materials scientists and engineers

Table of contents

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS

1. Nanobiopolymers: An introduction

2. Methods for synthesis of nanobiopolymers

3. Nanoscale characterizations of nanobiopolymers

4. Toxicity/risk assessment of nanobiopolymers

5. Degradation of nanobiopolymers

6. Environmental impacts

PART 2: PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOBIOPOLYMERS

7. Cellulose-based nanomaterials

8. Gelatin-based nanomaterials

9. Chiltin-based nanomaterials

10. Lignin-based nanomaterials

11. Hyaluronic acid nanoparticles

12. Heparin-based nanomaterials

13. Pectin-based nanomaterials

14. Silk protein and its nanocomposites

15. Zein nanoparticles

16. Keratin nanoparticles

17. Nucleic acids-based nanomaterials

18. Alginate-based nanomaterials

19. Biopolymer- nanoparticles hybrids

20. Bionanopolymer-based hybrids

PART 3: EMERGING APPLICATIONS
Chapter 21: Tissue engineering applications
Chapter 22: Drug delivery
Chapter 23: Anti-microbial and anti-viral agents
Chapter 24: Applications in food products
Chapter 25: Packaging materials
Chapter 26: Applications in cosmetics
Chapter 27: Water purification
Chapter 28: Flame retardancy
Chapter 29: Future perspectives

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 19, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Shamsher S. Kanwar

Shamsher S Kanwar is Professor of Biotechnology and Director of IPRCC at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. His research is in the fields of microbiology, immunology/ cell culture and fermentation, with an emphasis on developing bio-products and bio-processes, for a variety of extracellular microbial enzymes as an alternative to traditional antibiotics & antilipolytic drugs. Currently Dr. Kanwar has been developing anticancer therapeutics by exploring the use of microbial ribonuclease, cholesterol oxidase and L-methionase.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Biotechnology and Director of IPRCC, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India

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Ashok Kumar Nadda

Ashok Kumar is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, India. His research areas are in enzymology, biocatalysis, biopolymers, enzyme immobilization, and bioenergy.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Jaypee University of Information Technology

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Tuan Anh Nguyen

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

SS

Swati Sharma

Dr. Swati Sharma (MSc, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni Solan H.P. India; PhD. University Malaysia, Pahang, Malaysia) is Assistant Professor at University Institute of Biotechnology, the Chandigarh University Mohali, India. She worked as a visiting researcher in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea. She has also worked as a program co-coordinator at the Himalayan Action Research Center (HARC), Dehradun, and Senior Research Fellow at the India Agricultural Research Institute in 2013-2014. Presently, Dr. Sharma's research is in the field of bioplastics, hydrogels, keratin nano-fibers and nano-particles, biodegradable polymers and polymers with antioxidant and anticancer activities and sponges. Dr. Swati has published numerous books and papers in various internationally reputed journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

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Yassine Slimani

Yassine Slimani is a Professor in the Department of Biophysics, at the Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. His areas of research include materials science, chemical engineering, environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biophysics, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

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