Nanotechnology is at the forefront of advances in medicine. Nanomedicine: Technologies and Applications, Second Edition provides an important review of this exciting technology and its growing range of applications. In this new edition, all chapters are thoroughly updated and revised, with new content on antibacterial technologies, and green nanomedicine.
After an introduction to nanomedicine, part one discusses key materials and their properties, whilst part two goes on to review nanomedicine for therapeutics and imaging, before nanomedicine for soft tissue engineering is discussed in part three, including organ regeneration, skin grafts, nanotubes and self-assembled nanomaterials.
Nanomedicine for bone and cartilage tissue engineering is the focus of part four, before new additional content is covered in parts five and six, including nanostructured particles for antibacterial purposes, as well as advances in green nanomedicine and using natural nanomedicine to fight disease.
With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Nanomedicine: Technologies and Applications, Second Edition is an indispensable guide for all those involved in the research, development and application of this exciting technology, whilst providing a comprehensive introduction for students and academics interested in this field.
- Provides an important review of nanomedicine technology and its growing range of applications
- Discusses key nanomedicine materials and their properties, including nanocrystalline metals and alloys, nanoporous gold and hydroxyapatite coatings
- Features updated content on all parts, as well as a number of new chapters, covering topics from antibacterial nanomedicine to green nanomedicine
Part I: Materials, properties and considerations 1. Introduction to nanomedicine
2. Trends in nanomedicine
3. Biomedical nanocrystalline metals and alloys: structure, properties and applications
4. Nanoporous gold for biomedical applications: structure, properties and applications
5. Hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings for biomaterials
Part II: Nanomedicine for therapeutics and imaging 6. Functionalized magnetic nanoparticles for treating bone diseases
7. Orthopedic carbon nanotube biosensors for controlled drug delivery
8. Nanotechnology for DNA and RNA delivery
9. Gold nanoshells for imaging and photothermal ablation of cancer
10. Nanotechnology for DNA and RNA delivery
11. Gold nanoshells for imaging and photothermal ablation of cancer
12. Microfluidics for testing and delivering nanomedicine
13. Nanotechnology for cartilage and bone regeneration
14. Nanostructured materials for bone tissue replacement
15. Nanocomposites for cartilage regeneration
Part III: Nanomedicine for soft tissue engineering 16. Rapid fabrication of biomimetic nanofiber-enabled skin grafts
17. Nanotubes for tissue engineering
Professor Thomas J. Webster, a chemical and biomedical engineer, holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and RPI. He has founded over a dozen companies with FDA-approved medical products benefiting over 30,000 patients and is involved in sustainability and renewable energy technologies. Currently a professor at multiple universities, he has received numerous accolades, including recognition as a top scientist by PLOS and Clarivate. With over 1,350 publications and 66,000 citations, he is a former president of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also established a fund for Nigerian student research in the USA.
