Fiber Production Technologies for Biomedical Applications

Mariappan Rajan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Products Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He is an experienced researcher and is mainly interested in the development of biodegradable polymeric nanocarrier systems, nanogels, nanoparticles, nanocomposite scaffolds, bio-ceramic materials and mineral substituted scaffold for Tissue engineering, Drug Delivery and Wound Dressing applications.

Section A: Natural Sources and the Fundamentals of Fiber Composite Materials
1. Natural Resources for Fiber Production
2. Fiber Production Methods for Organic Fibrous Materials
3. Inorganic fibers and their Composite Materials
4. Non-polymeric materials: production and characterization

Section B: Technologies for fiber production processes
5. A top-down approach in the fiber production process
6. Electrospinning Techniques in Fiber Formation
7. Wet-Spinning in Fiber Production
8. Drawing and Template methods in fiber production
9. Interfacial polymerization and self-assembled fibers

Section C: Structural features and applications in biomedical engineering
10. Fiber structural features in medicinal devices
11. Fibers and their composite in bone tissue engineering
12. Regeneration properties of fibers in wound regeneration
13. Conductive fibers in spinal cord injury repair
14. Fibers and their composites in artificial organ replacements

Section D: Market and Future Needs
15. The process of fiber production: from the laboratory to the market
16. Commercially available medicinal grade fibers and future needs