Engineering applications of bio-materials

With the prospect of revolutionizing specific technologies, this book highlights the most exciting and impactful current research in the fields of cellulose-based superabsorbent hydrogels with their smart applications.

This book highlights the latest research on biochar, a low-cost carbonaceous material produced from biomass, and is regarded as an economical substitute to the activated carbon.

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Advances in Materials Processing and Manufacturing Applications (iCADMA 2020), held on November 5-6, 2020, at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

This book presents the latest knowledge, trends, and advances in cell transplantation and innovations in developing microspheres, 3D biomaterial constructs to enhance transfer, and cell survival to specific regions of the brain.

Biomaterials are produced from biological material and are used for their physical characteristics.

This book joins an international and interdisciplinary group of leading experts on the biomedical, energy and environmental applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs).

This book characterizes how to design and synthesize nanomaterials of an organic and mineral nature.

This book presents a comprehensive study on microextrusion-based 3D bioprinting technologies for bioinks with various crosslinking mechanisms, chiefly focusing on the bioprinting process and bioink properties to provide readers with a better understanding of this state-of-the-art technology.

'Soft Matter Under Exogenic Impacts' is fairly unique in supplying a comprehensive presentation of high pressures, negative pressures, random constraints and strong electric field exogenic (external) impacts on various soft matter systems.

This detailed volume provides state-of-the-art methodologies and reviews of important topics in the field of homology modeling.

This book embarks on an enlightening journey through the molecular landscape of collagen mimic peptides, shedding light on their significance and potential.

Nanodiamonds: Applications in Biology and Nanoscale Medicine highlights the translation of nanodiamonds toward clinical relevance and medical applications.

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

This book describes the details of the research and development of nickel-saving high nitrogen austenitic stainless steel and high nitrogen steel (HNS) with excellent corrosion resistance in the sea.

This manual provides insights into the theory and practical aspects of several biotechnological and biochemical techniques for plants, protozoa, nematodes, insects and fishes, as well as human samples.

This volume offers a careful selection of trend-setting topics in the field.

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in biomaterials for road pavements, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Workshop on the Use of Biomaterials in Pavements, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 23-24, 2024.

This book presents select papers presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Polymer Association.

The book Function-oriented bioengineered skin equivalents -  continuous development towards complete skin replication aims to provide potential readers with a comprehensive summary of the available information on various in vitro skin models, from historical background to different modeling approaches and their applications.

Written by the founder of the field of carbon "e;quantum"e; dots (carbon dots) and related technology, this book outlines the principles of carbon dots and presents strong evidence for that small carbon nanoparticles and by extension carbon dots represent the nanoscale carbon allotrope at zero-dimension.

The book comprehensively covers the different topics of graphene based biopolymer and nanocomposites, mainly synthesis methods for the composite materials, various characterization techniques to study the superior properties and insights on potential advanced applications.

This book presents a widespread description of the synthesis and characterization of biomass-based carbon nanostructures.

This book addresses the possibilities and challenges in mimicking biological membranes and creating membrane-based sensor and separation devices.

With the recent technological advancement usage of unique nanomaterials and bio-based composite materials as sensors has been greatly improved.

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

This brief explores recent progress in the area of polysaccharides and their composites and nanocomposites.

This book offers innovative ideas and solutions from tropical fruits and crops for engineering problems.

Over the past decade the world has seen the rise of the fascinating and diverse field currently recognized as nanotechnology.

The purpose of MetFoam conference series is to provide a state-of-the-art review on lightweight porous metals and metallic foams and a forum for discussions and networking opportunities for scientists working in this field.

This detailed volume explores fibrous proteins widely present in different biological tissues or biological structural materials.

This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.

This book explores in depth a wide range of functional biomaterials-based systems for drug, gene delivery, and biomedical aspects.

This book accumulates the most recent advancements in the field of bioengineering regarding hybrid science named nanobiotechnology and enriches the readers with vast and comprehensive knowledge about different biomedical applications of nanomaterials.

This book covers the clinical application of nano-biomaterials in hard tissue repair and regeneration which are materials designed to interact with biological systems to restore and regenerate damaged tissues.

In September 2005 a NATO Advanced Research Workshop convened in Kiev to discuss the current state of the art in surface chemistry and nanomaterials research, with a view towards biomedical and environmental applications.

This book highlights the development of a functional nucleic acid based biosensor detection method in the context of food safety.

Extracellular and biofluids vesicles (EVs) are highly specialised yet ubiquitous nanoscale messengers secreted by cells.

This book highlights the genomic findings, observations, and analysis of DNA/RNA sequences and protein structure of the dreadful virus of this decade- COVID-19.

The goal of this textbook is to equip readers with as structured knowledge of soft robotics as possible.

This book showcases the diverse strategies used by invertebrate organisms to enhance their structures with metals.

This book focuses on the use of natural fiber composites (NFCs) in the automotive industry.

This book highlights the evolution of, and novel challenges currently facing, nanomaterials science, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology, and their applications and development in the biological and biomedical fields.

This book presents a comprehensive review on the various processing and post-processing methodologies for biodegradable polymers.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 6th International Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials (ICPCM 2024) held on 5-7 Dec.

Calcium phosphate coatings ( 50 mm thick), especially those made with hyd- xyapatite (HA), produced by the plasma-spraying process have been succe- fully used on orthopedic and dental implants to improve fixation of these implants in bone.

Injectable smart hydrogels possess various properties that enable the development of new minimally invasive approaches to avoid problems associated with traditional implants.