Overview
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the principles and applications of all classes of smart biomaterials
- Introduces key new topics including shape memory materials
- Serves as a catalyst for new research to lead the field in the coming decade
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: NIMS Monographs (NIMSM)
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This book provides comprehensive coverage of smart biomaterials and their potential applications, a field that is developing at a very rapid pace. Because smart biomaterials are an emerging class of biomaterials that respond to small changes in external stimuli with large discontinuous changes in their physical properties, they have been designed to act as an “on–off” switch for, among others, bio separation, immunoanalysis, drug delivery technologies, gene therapy, diagnostics, bio sensors and artificial muscles. After an introduction to the topic and the history of smart biomaterials, the author gives the reader an in-depth look at the properties, mechanics, and characterization of smart biomaterials including hydrogels, particles, assemblies, surfaces, fibers and conjugates. Information on the wide range of applications for these materials follows, including drug delivery, tissue engineering, diagnostics, biosensors, bio separation and actuators. In addition, recent advances in shape memory biomaterials as active components of medical devices are also presented.
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Book Title: Smart Biomaterials
Authors: Mitsuhiro Ebara, Yohei Kotsuchibashi, Ravin Narain, Naokazu Idota, Young-Jin Kim, John M. Hoffman, Koichiro Uto, … Takao Aoyagi
Series Title: NIMS Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54400-5
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. Published by Springer Japan 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54399-2Published: 16 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54400-5Published: 28 May 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-8891
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9502
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 373
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 107 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomaterials, Gene Therapy, Polymer Sciences, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Nanotechnology