Nanostructured Materials for Biomedical Applications

Raji Vijayamma, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, Sabu Thomas, Raji Vijayamma, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, Sabu Thomas

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780323908382
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323908399
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Nanostructured Materials for Biomedical Applications highlights progress, challenges and opportunities in nanomedicine and discusses novel engineering approaches of nanostructured materials that are useful in various biomedical applications. The book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in bio-nanotechnology, with an emphasis on diverse biomedical applications, such as in drug delivery, bioimaging, hyperthermia and targeted cancer therapy. Users will find this to be a broad introductory reference for anyone new to the field or those who wish to gain a thorough overview of nanostructured materials in the context of biomedical applications.The breadth of this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience, including materials scientists, pharmaceutical scientists and biomedical engineers. - Covers a range of nanomaterial types, including metal nanoparticles, luminescent nanoparticles, cubosomes, smart nanostructures, and much more - Reviews the diverse applications of nanomaterials in biomedicine, such as in theranostics, biosensing, cancer therapy, drug delivery and tissue engineering - Provides a concise, introductory reference for those new to the fields of bionanomaterials and bio-nanotechnology

Table of contents

• Nanostructured Materials for Biomedical Applications
• 1. Introduction to the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials
• 2. Metal and metal oxide nanoparticles—applications in medicine
• 3. MOF based nanostructures for light mediated cancer therapy
• 4. Biological interactions and fate of nanomaterials in living systems
• 5. Cubosomes – excellent pharmaceutical carriers
• 6. Luminescent nanoclusters for applications in biomedical field
• 7. Multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications
• 8. Self-assembled smart nanostructures for drug delivery applications
• 9. Recent advances in cancer nanotheranostics
• 10. Application of nanocomposites in dentistry
• 11. Protein and peptide nanoparticles for drug delivery applications
• 12. Ferritin nanocages for targeted drug delivery applications
• 13. Health, safety, and risk assessments of nanomaterials in biomedical field