Engineering applications of bio-materials

Polysaccharides are natural, renewable materials that are biodegradable and biocompatible, making them ideal subjects for biomedical applications.

Interplay between Metal Ions and Nucleic Acids provides in an authoritative and timely manner in 12 stimulating chapters, written by 24 internationally recognized experts from 8 nations, and supported by nearly 1500 references, about 20 tables, and 125 illustrations, many in color, a most up-to-date view on metal ion-nucleic acid interactions; the characterization of which is covered in solution and in the solid state.

This thesis presents original research on how to seamlessly integrate electronics with living biological systems.

This handbook covers the medicinal and chemical properties of Ayurvedic medicines, the plants that produce them and the currently known organic compounds that occur therein.

This thesis presents the development of theranostic gold nanostars (GNS) for multimodality cancer imaging and therapy.

This book discusses different challenges imposed to the globe following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book summarizes the properties and applications of conventional and commercially available fiber-forming, bioresorbable polymers, as well as those currently under study, for use as biotextiles.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of review articles focusing on RNA-mediated regulation in prokaryotes.

This comprehensive book presents a modern concept in biophysics  based on recently published research.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the design, generation and characterization of minimal cell systems.

Nature has developed a diverse of materials, structures, and processes that are highly optimized for various functions.

This book presents biodegradable depressants, delving deep into their performance, intricate structures, and adsorption mechanisms.

This book covers the processing, properties, and application of rice husk, also widely known as rice hull, which is an available agricultural waste in numerous rice-producing countries.

Nanoparticles presents the remarkable variety of nanoparticle families, compositions, structures, and functions.

This book provides an up-to-date perspective on oral biofilms and dental materials, equipping readers with a sound understanding of their mutual interactions.

This book is written for the users and designers of joint replacements.

This book presents synthesis, characterization, and applications of macroporous, mesoporous, nanoporous, hierarchical porous, porous metals, and porous ceramics.

This book examines resource recovery and recycling from waste metal dust, including currently used techniques for waste processing and recycling and their applications, with practical examples and economic potentials of the processes.

This book covers the latest developments in phenolic foams and their applications.

The book delves into the realm of biomaterials with a strong focus on sustainability, offering insights into their diverse applications in advanced therapeutics, and, diagnostics.

This book highlights a novel and holistic approach to multiscaled PVA bionanocomposite films used for electrical sensing, medical and packaging applications.

This book provides an overview of the lastest developments in biobased materials and their applications in food packaging.

This book gives an overview of the existing self-healing nanotextured vascular approaches.

This book encompasses peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advancement in Materials Processing Technology (AMPT 2023).

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the molecular design, characterization, and physical chemistry of soft interfaces.

This book provides comprehensive description of polymeric membranes in water treatment and remediation.

"e;Functional Materials textbook is not simply a review of the vast body of literature of the recent years, as it holds the focus upon various aspects of application.

This book covers the latest research in biofilm, infection, and antimicrobial strategies in reducing and treating musculoskeletal, skin, transfusion, implant-related infections, etc.

This reference work presents the basic principles of angiogenesis induction, including the roles of signaling factors such as hypoxia-inducible factors, biophysical stimulation and angiogenic cells.

This book reviews the latest developments in the field of plant-based biomanufacturing, namely the utilization of plant factories to obtain valuable active ingredients for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.

Starch is one of the most important natural and biodegradable polymers on Earth.

This book focuses on the regulation of transcription and translation in Archaea and arising insights into the evolution of RNA processing pathways.

This book presents a detailed examination of the recent biotechnological advances in chitin and chitosan-based biocomposites, highlighting their preparation, characterization, and wide-ranging applications.

This book presents a collection of chapters on modern bioelectrochemistry, showing different aspects of electron transfer reactions in biological systems and techniques.

High-fidelity chromosomal DNA replication underpins all life on the planet.

Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases.

This thesis illuminates the critical roles biomolecules, from small molecules to proteins, play in cellular functionality, particularly highlighting their conformational changes in response to environmental cues or binding events-a cornerstone concept in drug design as well as the manifestations of disease.

This book highlights leading-edge research in multi-disciplinary areas in Physics, Engineering, Medicine, and Health care, from the 6th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET 2020) held in July 2020 at Singapore.

This book presents three types of synthetically cooperative DNA recognizing assemblies, in order to advance the development of programmable DNA-binding pyrrole-imidazole polyamides (PIPs).

An authoritative and comprehensive reference relevant to all scientists and engineers in the field.

This volume discusses the vaccine development process and the role delivery concepts contribute to a global goal of effective health outcomes.

This volume presents the recent developments in synthetic biodegradable and biobased polymers.

This book covers the principles of advanced 3D fabrication techniques, stem cells and biomaterials for neural engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research as well as current challenges and strategies to reconstruct large bone defects employing 3D printing technology.

This book describes medical applications of photochemistry.

This book focuses on the recent innovations and therapeutic potentials of regenerative medicine and discusses the applications of stem cells, biomaterials, and tissue engineering in regenerative medicine.

This book summarizes the effective reinforcement of scaffolds by means of different kinds of fibers and tubes to meet different needs in the context of tissue repair.

This book focuses on recent advances in dental gold alloys and gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for biomedical applications.

This essential volume explores a variety of tools and protocols of structure-based (homology modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics, protein-protein interaction network) and ligand-based (pharmacophore mapping, quantitative structure-activity relationships or QSARs) drug design for ranking and prioritization of candidate molecules in search of effective treatment strategy against coronaviruses.