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Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels

Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications

  • 1st Edition - November 11, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ravin Narain
  • Language: English

Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels: Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications provides acomprehensive text on hydrogels and their biomedical uses, covering both fundamen… Read more

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Description

Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels: Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications provides a
comprehensive 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 valuable
to upper level undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and progressors teaching fundamental and applied aspects of hydrogels.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students, researchers and professors teaching fundamental and applied aspects of hydrogels

Table of contents

Part I - Fundamental Aspects of Hydrogels

1. Introduction of hydrogels

2. Properties of Hydrogels

3. Modern Approaches for the Fabrication of hydrogels: Chemical and Physical Crosslinking

4. Characterizations of Hydrogels

5. Hydrogels Degradation

6. Hydrogels Modification

Part II – Synthetic and Natural Derived Hydrogels

7. Hydrogels from Synthetic Polymers

8. Hydrogels based on natural polysaccharides

9. Peptide based hydrogels

10. Protein Hydrogels

11. Composite hydrogels

12. Extracellular Matrix (ECM) based Hydrogels

Part III – Types of Hydrogels

13. Responsive Hydrogels: Temperature, light, pH, etc

14. Double Network Hydrogels

15. Injectable Hydrogels

16. Self-Healing Hydrogels

17. Shape Memory Hydrogels

18. Self-Assembling hydrogels

19. Microgels and Nanogels

Part IV - Applications of hydrogels

20. Hydrogels in Cell and Tissue Engineering (fundamental asp

21. Hydrogels as Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

22. Hydrogels for Drug Delivery

23. Hydrogels for 3D Printing

24. Hydrogels in Sensing

25. Hydrogels for Wound Dressing

26. Commercially Available and Recently Approved Hydrogels for Clinical Applications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 11, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ravin Narain

Ravin Narain, PhD, PEng, FRSC, is a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Prof. Narain has made significant contributions to research on the design, fabrication, and characterization of novel carbohydrate-based materials (glycopolymers, hydrogels, and nanomaterials) for a wide range of applications. His research has also covered biomaterials, nanomedicines, and regenerative medicines, with an emphasis on developing advanced materials as cancer therapeutics, antifouling and antimicrobial uses, and cell/tissue engineering advances. He has published numerous articles in peerreviewed and high-impact journals and has edited several books, namely, Engineered Carbohydrate-Based Materials for Biomedical Applications (Wiley), Chemistry of Bioconjugates (Wiley), Glycopolymers: Synthesis and Applications (Smithers & Rapra), Polymers and Nanomaterials for Gene Therapy (Woodhead Publishing Elsevier), and Polymer Science and Nanotechnology (Elsevier). He was recently the section editor for the second edition of the book—Comprehensive Glycoscience (Elsevier). He is also on the editorial board for Frontiers in Chemistry (Polymer Chemistry), Polymer Chemistry (RSC), Biomacromolecules (ACS), and Polymers (MDPI). He has won several awards including the Distinguished Visiting Researcher Award from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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