Advances in Polymeric Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Anil Kumar Bajpai M.Sc. (Chemistry), Ph.D. (Polymer chemistry), D.Sc. (Adsorption of plasma proteins on polymer surfaces) has 28 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research experience. He is currently head of the Bose Memorial Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Autonomous Science College, Jabalpur, India. His areas of expertise include synthesis of biomedical polymers, drug delivery through nanocarriers, nanocomposites, stimuli responsive drug delivery systems, water remediation by nanoparticles, conducting polymers. Bajpai has been the lead author of one book as well as contributed several chapters. He has written more than 220 papers for international journals. Rajesh Kumar Saini completed his PhD in Polymer chemistry in 2008. He has written over 30 papers and 11 chapters for books. Saini is currently a Research Scholar at Bose Memorial Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Govt.Auto.Science College, India.

1. Fundamentals of polymeric nanomaterials 2. Synthesis of polymer nanomaterials, mechanisms, and their structural control 3. Polymeric nanomaterials in drug delivery 4. Nanostructures in gene delivery 5. Dendrimer-based nanoformulations as drug carriers for cancer treatment 6. Polymer nanomaterials in bioimaging 7. Polymeric nanoparticles used in tissue engineering 8. Polymeric nanomaterials as broad-spectrum antimicrobial compounds 9. Polymeric nanomaterials for targeting the cellular suborganelles 10. Polymeric nanomaterials in neuroscience 11. Polymeric nanomaterials for ocular drug delivery 12. Current and future challenges in polymeric nanomaterials for biomedical applications