Advanced bioceramics in nanomedicine and tissue engineering special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only

Nanoscience is revolutionizing the design of medical devices, tissue scaffolding and drug-delivery systems.²⁶ New discoveries regarding nano-system, made in other research areas, have opened up the possibility of using them in biomedicine. However, such nanoscience and its possibilities, which somet...

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Other Authors Vallet-Regí, Maria, Vila, M.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Stafa-Zurich : Trans Tech Publications, c2010.
SeriesKey engineering materials ; v. 441.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9771013982607
9781613446775
9783038133520
9780878492701
ISSN1013-9826 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (viii, 378 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Carbon nanotubes: a solution for processing smart biomaterials
  • Carbon nanotube composite scaffolds and coatings for tissue engineering applications
  • Formulating nanomedicines: focus on carbon nanotubes as novel nanoexcipients
  • Driving forces and consequences of the adsorption of proteins to carbon nanotubes
  • High resolution electron microscopy: a powerful tool to characterize nanotubes
  • Bioactive glass scaffolds with hierarchical structure and their 3D characterization
  • Design of hierarchically porous materials for bone tissue regeneration
  • Generating porous ceramic scaffolds: processing and properties
  • Calcium phosphate ceramics as bone drug-combined devices
  • Bioactive composites based on calcium phosphates for bone regeneration
  • Dendritic macromolecules: new possibilities for advanced bioceramics
  • Biomineralization of polymer scaffolds
  • Functionalized calcium phosphate nanoparticles for biomedical application
  • On cancer nanotechnology
  • Multifunctional nano and microparticles for drug delivery systems
  • Drug targeting and other recent applications of magnetic carriers in therapeutics.