Nanofabrication Towards Biomedical Applications – Techniques, Tools, Applications and Impact
Techniques, Tools, Applications, and Impact
Samenvatting
This book focuses on the materials, synthetic methods, tools and techniques being developed in the nanoregime towards the life sciences –– in particular biology, biotechnology and medicine.
Readers from materials science, engineering, chemistry, biology and medical backgrounds will find detailed accounts of the design and synthesis of nanomaterials and the tools and techniques involved in their production for applications in biology, biotechnology and medicine.
Specificaties
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<br /> Synthetic Approaches to Metallic Nanomaterials
<br /> Synthetic Approaches for Carbon Nanomaterials
<br /> Nanostructured Systems from Low–Dimensional Building Blocks
<br /> Nanostructured Collagen Mimics in Tissue Engineering
<br /> Molecular Biomimetics: Building Materials Nature′s Way, One Molecule at a Time
<br /> II. Characterization Tools for Nanomaterials and Nanosystems
<br /> Electron Microscopy Techniques for Characterization of Nanomaterials
<br /> X–ray Methods for the Characterization of Nanomaterials
<br /> Single–molecule Detection and Manipulation in Nanotechnology and Biology
<br /> Nanotechnologies for Cellular and Molecular Imaging by MRI
<br /> III. Application of Nanotechnology in Biomedical Research
<br /> Nanotechnology in Non–Viral Gene Delivery
<br /> Nanoparticles for Cancer Drug Delivery
<br /> Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Metal Nanoshells
<br /> Decorporation of Biohazards Utilizing Nanoscale Magnetic Carrier Systems
<br /> Nanotechnology in Biological Agent Decontamination
<br /> IV. Impact of Biomedical Nanotechnology on Education, Industry and Society
<br /> Too Small to See : Educating the Next Generation in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
<br /> Nanobiomedical Technology: Financial, Legal, Clinical, Political, Ethical and Societal Challenges to Implementation