Main description:

Nanostructured Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine focuses on the definition of new trends for the design of biomaterials for biomedical applications. It includes the ex novo synthesis as well as technological strategies to manipulate them into appropriate two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) forms, in order to impart all the main physical, chemical, structural and biological properties requested to achieve desired clinical efficacy. This book aims at offering a concise overview of innovative platforms based on nanostructured biomaterials as a function of their chemical nature - established by a consolidated material classification i.e., polymer, ceramics and metals. For each class, emerging bioinspired systems with rapid expansion in the biomedical research area and fabricated via new enabling technologies will be proposed for the use in tissue repair/regeneration and nanomedicine.

This book is an essential resource for researchers, academics and professionals interested in the potential of nanostructured biomaterials for regenerative medicine.

Contents:

1. Introducing biomaterials for tissue repair and regeneration

2. Regulatory landscape of nanostructured biomaterials for tissue regeneration

3. Nanostructured biomaterials for regenerative medicine: Clinical perspectives

4. Nanostructured biomaterials with antimicrobial activity for tissue engineering

Part One - Polymers and composites

5. Molecularly imprinted polymers for selective recognition in regenerative medicine

6. Polysaccharide-based hybrid materials for molecular release applications

7. Patterned nanocomposites generated via electric/magnetic fields for hierarchical tissue regeneration

Part Two - Ceramics

8. Nanostructured calcium phosphates for hard tissue engineering and nanomedicine

9. Silicate-based nanoceramics in regenerative medicine

10. Bioactive glass-ceramics: From macro to nano

11. Inorganic nanoparticle-based biomaterials for regenerative medicine

Part Three - Metals

12. Surface topographies on the micro and nanoscale of metal alloys for tissue regeneration

13. Fast and effective osseointegration of dental, spinal, and orthopedic implants through tailored chemistry of inorganic surfaces

14. Micro and nano-needles as innovative approach in nanomedicine

15. Metal nanoscale systems functionalized with organic compounds