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Nanogels: Fundamentals to Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications

  • 1st Edition - June 2, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Anurag Kumar Singh, Vivek Chaturvedi, Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Singh
  • Language: English

Nanogels: Fundamentals to Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive overview of nanogels, focusing on design principles, crosslinking methods, and therap… Read more

Description

Nanogels: Fundamentals to Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive overview of nanogels, focusing on design principles, crosslinking methods, and therapeutic agent delivery. It covers nanogels' thermal properties, stabilization, chemical modifications, and biocompatibility. The book details biomedical applications, including bioimaging, sensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. It also explores in-vivo assessments, responsive therapies, and safety considerations, including toxicity, clearance mechanisms, and immunological responses, offering new insights into nanogel technology.

Nanogels: Fundamentals to Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications offers an exciting look into this emerging area and is of particular interest to healthcare professionals and researchers working on nanocarrier-based drug delivery, focusing on porous nanogel nanocarriers.

Key features

  • Describes the current and future prospective of biomedical applications of nanogels, emphasizing their role in drug delivery, targeted therapy, imaging, diagnostics, and tissue engineering. Explores their potential to address critical healthcare challenges, serving as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners
  • Delivers a fully updated and complete overview of the range of biomedical applications for nanogels
  • Explores cutting-edge nanogel research and emerging trends, offering future insights while addressing toxicity assessment, clearance mechanisms, and long-term effects to ensure safe biomedical applications of these innovative materials

Readership

Researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of materials science, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical science and translational sciences with an interest in nanogels for biomedical applications.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Nanogels: Exploring the Frontier of Nanoscale Technology

2. Nanogel: Design fabrication and Characterization

3. Controlling the Size, Shape, and Composition of Nanogels

4. Nanogels in Drug Delivery for Enhanced Therapeutic Efficacy

5. Stimuli-Responsive Nanogels: Smart Systems for Controlled drug Release

6. Nanogels in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

7. Nanogels in Diagnostics: Sensing and Imaging Applications

8. Biomedical Applications of Nanogels: From Cancer Therapy to Wound Healing

9. Magnetic Nanogels: Pioneering Image-Guided Therapy for Enhanced Treatment

10. Recent Advances in Nanogel Technology for Biomedical applications

11. Polymeric Nanogels for drug delivery and pharmaceutical science

12. Role of Nano-Hydrogels in bio-ink Formulations for 3D Bioprinting

13. Regulatory Aspects and Commercialization of Nanogel-Based Products in Pharmaceutical Applications

14. Safety and Biocompatibility of Nanogels: Addressing Current Concerns

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 9, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

AS

Anurag Kumar Singh

Dr. Anurag Kumar Singh is a Research Associate (ICMR-RA) in the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology at IIT BHU, Varanasi. He earned his PhD from the Centre of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, IMS, BHU, and an M. Pharm from Central University of Rajasthan. With more than 3.5 years of postdoctoral experience, he has worked at Alabama State University (Cancer Biology Research and Training) and Bar-Ilan University (Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Israel). His research centers on nano-particulate systems for chronic pain, neurodegenerative disorders, and brain-targeted drug delivery, including dendrimers, nanoporous silica/silicon materials, and polymeric nanoparticles for controlled delivery. He aims to develop nanomedicines for biomedical applications and to bridge engineering, pharmaceutical, and medical research. He has published widely, including reviews/editorials, and authored/editor of four books and over ten book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India

VC

Vivek Chaturvedi

Dr. Vivek K. Chaturvedi is a Young-Scientist Fellow (Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) at the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India). Before joining the laboratory as a Young Scientist Fellow, He worked as a Postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Gastroenterology, IMSBHU, Varanasi. Dr Chaturvedi’s research interests include the synthesis and functionalization of nanobiomaterials, as well as their fabrication, to develop biosensors for early detection and treatment of cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. Besides these, he has published many original articles in peer-reviewed high-impact journals along with internationally edited and authored books.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

SS

Santosh Kumar Singh

Santosh Kumar Singh is a Senior Scientist at the Centre of Experimental Medicine & Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, Centre of Experimental Medicine and Surgery (CEMS), Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India

JS

Jay Singh

Dr. Jay is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India, since 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in 2010 and did MSc and BSc from Allahabad University, India. He is actively engaged in the development of nanomaterials (CeO2, NiO, rare-earth metal oxide, Ni, Nife2O4, Cu2O, Graphene, RGO etc.), based nanobiocomposite, conducting polymer and self-assembled monolayers based clinically important biosensors for estimation of bioanalaytes such as cholesterol, xanthine, glucose, pathogens and pesticides/toxins using DNA and antibodies. He is actively engaged in fabricating metal oxide-based biosensors for clinical diagnosis, food packaging applications, drug delivery, and tissue engineering applications.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India

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