Inorganic Frameworks as Smart Nanomedicines

Inorganic Frameworks as Smart Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery brings together recent research in the area of inorganic frameworks for drug delivery. Different types of nanocarriers are presented and discussed in detail, providing an up-to-date overview on inorganic nanoparticles with pharmaceutical applications. Written by a diverse range of international academics, this book is a valuable reference resource for researchers in biomaterials, the pharmaceutical industry, and those who want to learn more about the current applications of inorganic smart nanocarriers.

Includes assembly methods for a variety of smart nanocarrier systems, also showing how they are appliedHighlights how metal-oxide nanoparticles are effectively used in drug deliveryAssesses the pros and cons of different metallic nanomaterials as drug carriers

1. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles as drug delivery systems: chances and challenges
2. Hollow Silica Microcapsules through Self Assembly of Silica Nanoparticles
3. Nanostructured metal-oxide thin films based biosensors for biological applications: zinc-oxide based nanoparticles
4. Metal oxide nanoparticles and neurodegeneration
5. Metal Oxide Nanoparticles to GBM cancer treatment
6. Functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles: applications in bionanotechnology
7. Bismuth metallic nanoparticles
8. Gold nanoparticles for cancer diagnostics, spectroscopic imaging, drug delivery, and Plasmonic Photothermal Therapy
9. Gold Nanoparticles: Creating a golden age for nanomedicine
10. Genotoxicity of Titanium dioxide, Zinc oxide nanoparticles and their mixture using the Allium cepa assay
11. Advanced Experience in the Use of Biodegradable and ZnO Nanoparticles in the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
12.  Quantom Dots: Novel bio-imaging agents in nanopharmaceuticals
13. Different synthesis techniques of metallic nanoparticles and involved challenges
14. Metal Nanoparticles Confined in Nanoporous Materials: A Brief Scientific and Technical Overview of the Textural Characterization and Pore-structures
15. Metallic nanoparticles stabilized by natural products: applications and pharmacological perspectives
16. Metallic nanoparticles as sensors for assaying of drugs in pharmaceutical samples
17. Lithium nanosized particles as antitumor agent
18. Efficient removal of RhB using Lanthanide doped TiO2 nanostructures
19. In situ Synthesis of Silver Core shell nanoparticles and its anticancer activity against Breast and Lung cancer cell lines