Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications (eBook)

This book provides an overview of the use of nanoparticles, carbon-nanotubes, liposomes, and nanopatterned flat surfaces for specific biomedical applications. This book explains the chemical and physical properties of the surface of these materials that allow their use in diagnosis, biosensing and bioimaging devices, drug delivery systems, and bone substitute implants. The toxicology of these particles is also discussed in the light of a new field referred to as nanotoxicology in this book. This book will be useful for engineers, researchers and industry professionals primarily in the fields of polymer science and engineering, materials science, surface science, nanocatalysis, biotechnology and biomedicine.


?Dr Sreerag Gopi is a Chief Scientific Officer at Centre for Innovations and Technologies (CIT), ADSO Naturals Private Limited company, India. He also serves as Vice President (Research) at Curesupport Holding B.V, Netherlands. In research, Dr Sreerag has published more than 50 journal papers, several conference proceedings and authored 15 book chapters. He has more than 7 years of total experience in industrial and academic research in chemistry, material science including nanocomposites for drug delivery, environmental remediation and bioprinting. His area of interests are synthesis and functionalization of nanoparticles from biopolymers, application in drug delivery and liposomal encapsulations. He is a recipient of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus fellowship by European Union during his Ph. D period. Dr Sreerag is a member of Royal Society of Chemistry, Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute and Chartered Chemist at Royal chemical institute, Australia. He is a editor for several books published by Elsevier such as Handbook of Chitin and Chitosan 3 volumes and several on going projects in his hand with the collaboration of RSC, Springer, Apple Academic Press, Wiley and ACS.

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This book provides an overview of the use of nanoparticles, carbon-nanotubes, liposomes, and nanopatterned flat surfaces for specific biomedical applications. This book explains the chemical and physical properties of the surface of these materials that allow their use in diagnosis, biosensing and bioimaging devices, drug delivery systems, and bone substitute implants. The toxicology of these particles is also discussed in the light of a new field referred to as nanotoxicology in this book. This book will be useful for engineers, researchers and industry professionals primarily in the fields of polymer science and engineering, materials science, surface science, nanocatalysis, biotechnology and biomedicine.