Main description:

Polymeric Biomaterials for Healthcare Applications details a broad range of polymeric biomaterials, methods of synthesis and preparation, and their various applications in healthcare and biomedicine. The book provides a fundamental overview of polymers and processing technologies to allow clinical scientists to explore the use of these polymers in alternative applications. A wide variety of healthcare applications are covered, including treatment for autoimmune diseases and bacterial infections, tissue engineering, gene delivery, wound dressing, and more. The book provides a core introductory text for clinical and materials scientists new to the area of polymeric biomaterials.

This book will prove useful to academics and researchers in materials science, biomedical engineering, clinical science and pharmaceutical science.

Contents:

1. Introduction to polymers for healthcare applications
2. Polymers importance to the preparation of medical devices for body applications
3. Polymeric beads for targeted drug delivery
4. Polymer nanoparticles for therapeutic applications
5. Green synthesis of polymer nanoparticles in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications
6. Biopolymer based biodegradable biomaterials for in vivo and in vitro applications
7. Polymers for removal of metal and control of bacterial infections
8. Polymers for toxicity control of antibiotics and metal nanoparticles
9. 3D polymeric biomaterials for wound dressing, orthopaedics and tissue engineering
10. Injectable polymeric biomaterials for wound dressing, orthopaedics and tissue engineering
11. Temperature-sensitive polymeric biomaterials for drug delivery, gene delivery and tissue engineering
12. Sterilization and clinical use of medical polymers
13. Polymeric biomaterials for autoimmune diseases
14. Conclusion