Integrated Biomaterials For Biomedical Technology

For students, researchers, scholars, and industrial specialists in biomaterials, materials science, engineering, and related fields, Ramalingam (biomaterials and tissue engineering, U. of Strasbourg, France) et al. compile 12 chapters on all aspects of biomaterials that have a wide range of biomedical applications such as medical implants and devices, stem cell and tissue engineering, protein and drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. They focus on the basic science involved in materials in biomedical technology and their structure and properties, techniques and technological innovations in material processing and characterizations, and applications. Specialists in biomaterials in the US, Asia, and Europe address different types of nanobiomaterials, how to generate porous biomaterials for tissue engineering, calcium phosphate-based biomaterials intended for mineralized tissue regenerative applications, the nanocrystalline form of calcium phosphates, the design and fabrication of silicon dioxide nanoparticles, new kinds of titanium alloy implants, an injectable growth factor system based on bone morphogenetic proteins, impedance sensing of biological processes in mammalian cells, hydrogels-based implantable glucose sensors, the molecular design of multifunctional polymers for gene transfection, hydrogels and their potential biomedical applications, and hybrid biomaterials with high mechanical and biological properties. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Editors
Murugan Ramalingam is an Associate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale U977, Faculte de Chirurgie Dentaire, Universite de Strasbourg (UdS), France. Concurrently, he holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the Tohoku University, Japan.

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Assistant Professor of Nanobioelectronics at Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM, Linkoping University, Sweden, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Letters.

Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, FNAE, FAIMBE, is the Director of HEM Labs at the National University of Singapore. He has authored five books and over 400 international journal papers, which have garnered more than 14,000 citations.

Hisatoshi Kobayashi is a group leader of WPI Research center MANA, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan. He is currently the President of the International Association of Advanced Materials.