Engineering applications of bio-materials

Nanotechnology is opening up new avenues in all scientific and technological fields.

Water and moisture undermine strong adhesion to polar surfaces.

This book explores the broad and diverse biological and physiological impacts of established and newly discovered cyclic di-nucleotide second messenger signaling systems, while also providing descriptions of the intriguing biochemical characteristics of multiple turnover enzymes and receptors.

This book reviews the current knowledge on tunable hydrogels, including the range of different materials and applications, as well as the existing challenges and limitations in the field.

Functionalized Conjugated Polyelectrolytes presents a comprehensive review of these polyelectrolytes and their biomedical applications.

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.

The book covers the fundamental aspects of biomaterials, including their introduction, types, synthesis, and characterization.

Cities have always played a prominent role in the prosperity of civilization.

Like many fields of science, the future of medicine is frequently predicted by the science fiction writers of today, very much as many of today's medical advances were presaged by science fiction stories of the past.

This book provides informative, useful, and stimulating reading on the topic of organic sonochemistry - the core of ultrasound-based applications.

This reference work provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of functional polymers and polymeric materials, ranging from their synthesis and characterization, to properties, actual applications and an outlook on future perspectives.

This second volume of Metal-Organic Framework Composites focusses on water pollution as a major concern and endangerment to human health and the application of MOFs for remediation.

Particularly in healthcare fields, there is a growing movement away from traditional lecture style courses towards active learning and team-based activities to improve retention of concepts and build higher level thinking through the application of complex problems with a strong foundation of facts and data.

This book deals with the adhesion, friction and contact mechanics of living organisms.

There is an increasing awareness that materials and chemicals produced from fossil fuels are not sustainable, both in terms of the pollution caused by the extraction and production processes, and the fact that there is only a finite supply of these fossil fuels.

This volume reviews numerous reaction mechanisms and applications of nucleic acids with catalytic activity.

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

This book is intended as a reference guide for graduate students, postgraduate students and researchers with a basic knowledge of protein chemistry who would like to know more about the biomedical applications of natural proteins to promote healthier lives.

This book will consist of 8 chapters, in which important issues regarding decellularized materials (DMs) will be discussed.

Current environmental and energy concerns have led to lignin gaining increased attention in the last decade as a renewable biomass.

The collection focuses on the advancements of characterization of minerals, metals, and materials and the applications of characterization results on the processing of these materials.

This book highlights the contemporary state of research in multidisciplinary areas of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Healthcare, and Business Technology.

This book presents a comprehensive overview on origin, structure, properties, modification strategies and applications of the biopolymer lignin.

This book focuses on recent trends of research on alginate-based biomaterials in Drug Delivery strategies and biomedical engineering.

This is a unique book containing comprehensive coverage of pluripotent stem cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes.

Multiscale mechanics of hierarchical materials plays a crucial role in understanding and engineering biological and bioinspired materials and systems.

This contributed volume reviews the latest advances on relevant 3D tissue engineered in vitro models of disease making use of biomaterials and microfluidics.

This book dealswith biological membranes, focuses on permeabilization and pays particularattention to reversible permeabilization to maintain the viability andphysiological conditions of the cells.

This book reports on advances in fundamental and applied research at the interface between nanotechnology and biomedical engineering.

This book presents the selected papers presented at the Third International Congress of Applied Chemistry & Environment (ICACE-3) that took place on May 27-29, 2022.

This book covers the latest advances in processing techniques for producing metallic biomaterial implants.

This book focuses on the development and applications of functional nucleic acid-based detection methods in the context of food safety.

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

Developments in the area of biomaterials, bionanotechnology, tissue engineering, and medical devices are becoming the core of health care.

There is an increasing awareness that materials and chemicals produced from fossil fuels are not sustainable, both in terms of the pollution caused by the extraction and production processes, and the fact that there is only a finite supply of these fossil fuels.

Mechanobiology is a new research field that investigates how the physical forces and changes in mechanical properties of cells and tissues contribute to their development, physiology and disease.

This book presents a comprehensive review of the latest advances in developing alginate-based biomaterials and derivatives as well as their biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.

Recent developments in stem cell biology have opened new directions in cell therapy.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering, EHB 2023, held in hybrid form on November 9-10, 2023, in/from Bucharest, Romania.

This book presents current laboratory, scientific and clinical aspects of nanomaterials used for medical applications in the fields of regenerative medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.

Nanorobots can be defined as intelligent systems with overall dimensions at or below the micrometer range that are made of assemblies of nanoscale components with individual dimensions ranging between 1 to 100 nm.

In this book, a summary and update of the most important areas of cell-penetrating peptides (CPP) research are presented, while raising relevant questions for further development.

This book addresses the need for a technical guided thought on production, consumption, and waste management of plastic and polymers in the African continent.

The book focuses on the application of nanotechnologies in scaffold-guided tissue regeneration and in drug delivery systems for use in immunotherapy and overcoming drug resistance in cancer treatment.

Ein ganzes Buch über nur ein einzelnes Element zu schreiben, scheint auf den ersten Blick etwas übertrieben, zumal es nicht das erste zum Thema Kohlenstoff ist und vermutlich auch nicht das letzte bleiben wird.

This book describes applications of acridines for the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and various prion diseases, and discusses the potential of acridines in neuro-regenerative medicine.

The book presents state-of-the-art developments in multiscale modeling and latest experimental data on multiscale mechanobiology of bone remodeling and adaptation including fracture healing applications.

This book focuses on applications of three-dimensional (3D) printing in healthcare.

This new series, based on a bi-annual conference and its topics, represents a major contribution to the emerging science of cancer research and regenerative medicine.