
Biosynthetic Polymers for Medical Applications
Description
Key Features
- Comprehensively covers all major medical applications of biosynthetic polymers
- Provides an overview of non-degradable and biodegradable biosynthetic polymers and their medical uses
- Presents a specific focus on coatings and surface modifications, biosynthetic hydrogels, particulate systems for gene and drug delivery, and conjugated conducting polymers
Readership
Biomaterials and chemical scientists in R&D and academia; in addition to polymer scientists, it should appeal to researchers concerned with tissue engineering, drug delivery and conducting materials
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
- Part One. Introduction and fundamentals
- 1. Introduction to biomedical polymers and biocompatibility
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Natural or biological polymers
- 1.3. Advantages and disadvantages of natural polymers
- 1.4. Biosynthetic polymers
- 1.5. Conclusion
- 2. Nondegradable synthetic polymers for medical devices and implants
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Ultra-high molecular weight poly(ethylene) (UHMWPE)
- 2.3. Polypropylene (PP)
- 2.4. Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)
- 2.5. Polyurethane (PU)
- 2.6. Poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS)
- 2.7. Polyether ether ketone (PEEK)
- 2.8. Future directions
- 3. Biodegradable and bioerodible polymers for medical applications
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Concepts and terminology
- 3.3. Motivating factors for using polymer–drug conjugates
- 3.4. Current and future trends
- 1. Introduction to biomedical polymers and biocompatibility
- Part Two. Coatings and surface modifications
- 4. Bio-inspired antimicrobial polymers
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Naturally occurring AMPs
- 4.3. Synthetic polymer mimics of AMPs
- 4.4. Chitosan – a natural antimicrobial polysaccharide
- 4.5. Neutral polymer brush layers for reducing bacterial attachment
- 5. Plasma-based surface modification for the control of biointerfacial interactions
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Plasma treatment of material surfaces
- 5.3. Plasma polymer-based coatings
- 5.4. Plasma polymer-based interlayers
- 5.5. Plasma polymer-based patterning
- 5.6. Functional plasma polymers
- 5.7. Antimicrobial plasma polymer coatings
- 5.8. Likely future trends
- 5.9. Sources of further information
- 6. Stent coatings for blood compatibility
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Stent development
- 6.3. Thrombosis issue
- 6.4. Drug-eluting stent coatings
- 6.5. Conclusions
- 4. Bio-inspired antimicrobial polymers
- Part Three. Biosynthetic hydrogels
- 7. Degradable hydrogel systems for biomedical applications
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Hydrogel precursors
- 7.3. Desired hydrogel properties
- 7.4. Degradable hydrogel systems
- 7.5. Where to? – degradable hydrogels
- 8. Angiogenesis in hydrogel biomaterials
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Biology of angiogenesis
- 8.3. Protein hydrogels to support angiogenic activity
- 8.4. Synthetic hydrogels to support angiogenic activity
- 8.5. In vitro culture of vascular networks
- 8.6. Inducing angiogenesis in host tissue
- 8.7. Conclusions
- 9. Engineering biosynthetic cell encapsulation systems
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Natural polymers
- 9.3. Synthetic polymers
- 9.4. Biosynthetic polymers
- 9.5. Future trends
- 7. Degradable hydrogel systems for biomedical applications
- Part Four. Conjugated conducting polymers
- 10. Conducting polymers and their biomedical applications
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Conducting mechanism
- 10.3. Electrochemical polymerisation of conducting polymers
- 10.4. Applications of conducting polymers in biomedical fields
- 10.5. Conclusions
- 11. Biosynthetic conductive polymer composites for tissue-engineering biomedical devices
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Conductive polymer composites
- 11.3. Biological components in CP composites
- 11.4. In vivo application of CP composites
- 11.5. Summary and future directions
- 12. Degradable conjugated conducting polymers and nerve guidance
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Material challenges in neural engineering
- 12.3. Processing of conducting polymers for the generation of 3D scaffolds
- 12.4. Biodegradable conducting polymers
- 12.5. Biomolecular and topographical guidance
- 12.6. Biological performance of CPs for neural regeneration
- 12.7. Future trends and remaining challenges
- 12.8. Sources for further information
- Abbreviations
- 10. Conducting polymers and their biomedical applications
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 358
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2015
- Published: November 23, 2015
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9781782421139
- Hardcover ISBN: 9781782421054
About the Editors
L Poole-Warren
Professor Poole-Warren continues to lead a research group in biomedical engineering focusing on design and understanding of biosynthetic polymers for medical applications.
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P. Martens
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R. Green
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