Bioinspired Materials for Medical Applications

Bioinspired Materials for Medical Applications examines the inspiration of natural materials and their interpretation as modern biomaterials. With a strong focus on therapeutic and diagnostic applications, the book also examines the development and manipulation of bioinspired materials in regenerative medicine.

The first set of chapters is heavily focused on bioinspired solutions for the delivery of drugs and therapeutics that also offer information on the fundamentals of these materials. Chapters in part two concentrate on bioinspired materials for diagnosis applications with a wide coverage of sensor and imaging systems

With a broad coverage of the applications of bioinspired biomaterials, this book is a valuable resource for biomaterials researchers, clinicians, and scientists in academia and industry, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

Explores how materials designed and produced with inspiration from nature can be used to enhance man-made biomaterials and medical devicesBrings together the two fields of biomaterials and bioinspired materialsWritten by a world-class team of research scientists, engineers, and clinicians

1. Design and preparation of biomimetic and bioinspired materials 2. Preparative methods and devices of bioinspired materials in drug-delivery systems 3. Metamorphic biomaterials 4. Molecular signalling mechanisms of host–materials interactions 5. Multifunctional biomaterials and their bioinspired systems for bioactive molecules delivery 6. Perspectives of bioinspired materials in regenerative medicine 7. Advanced techniques for characterizing bioinspired materials 8. Imaging strategies for bioinspired materials 9. Injectable hydrogels as a delivery system for bone regeneration 10. Therapeutic proteins in bioactive materials for wound healing 11. Smart devices: Micro- and nanosensors 12. Smart devices: Lab-on-a-chip 13. Electronic tongues and aptasensors 14. Advances on nucleic acid delivery with nonviral vectors 15. Artificial virus particles 16. Synthetic biology strategies towards the development of new bioinspired technologies for medical applications