Advanced Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications presents novel techniques for the preparation and characterization of functionalized polymers, enabling researchers, scientists and engineers to understand and utilize their enhanced functionality in a range of cutting-edge biomedical applications.

Provides systematic coverage of the major types of functional polymers, discussing their properties, preparation techniques and potential applicationsPresents new synthetic approaches alongside the very latest polymer processing and characterization methodsUnlocks the potential of functional polymers to support ground-breaking techniques for drug and gene delivery, diagnostics, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

1. Advanced functional polymers: An introduction in the context of biomedical engineering 2. Grafted biopolymers I: Methodology and factors affecting Grafting 3. Grafted biopolymers II: Synthesis and characterisation 4. Conjugated polymers having semiconducting properties 5. Supramolecular metallopolymers 6. Amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers 7. Heterotelechelic multiblock polymers using click chemistry 8. Phenolic and epoxy based copolymers and terpolymers 9. Maleimide and acrylates based functional polymers 10. Functional protein to polymer surfaces: An attachment 11. Functionalized photo-responsive polymers 12. Functionalized coordinating polymers 13. Functionalized bioconductive polymers 14. Functionalized polymers for drug/gene delivery applications 15. Functionalized polymers for diagnostic engineering 16. Functionalized polymers for tissue engineering and regenerative medicines 17. Characterization methodologies of functional polymers 18. State-of-the-art and future perspectives of functional polymers