Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Hydrogels and Polymer-based Scaffolds

Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Hydrogels and Polymer-Based Scaffolds discusses the use of a wide variety of hydrogels as bioactive scaffolds in regenerative medicine, including updates on innovative materials and their properties. Various types of currently investigated scaffolding materials and hydrogels are discussed, as is their future roles and applications, the main techniques for scaffold fabrication, and their characterization procedures. Readers will be able to use this book as a guide for the selection of the best materials for a specific application.

• Provides a valuable resource of recent scientific progress, highlighting the most well-known applications of hydrogels as bioactive scaffolds in regenerative medicine
• Includes novel opportunities and ideas for developing or improving technologies in biomaterials, and in related biomedical industries
• Features at least 50% of references from the last 2-3 years

Academic and industrial researchers, PhD students  working in nanotechnology, materials  science, biomaterials and biomedical engineering, especially  institutions where online access to journals is a problem

1. Hydrogels and non-hydrogel scaffolds and cell interaction
   2. Interactions between Tissues, Cells and Biomaterials: an Advanced Evaluation by Synchrotron Radiation-based High Resolution Microtomography
   3. Bioprinted scaffolds
   4. Superabsorbent Hydrogels Based on Chitosan: Current State and Potential Applications
   5. Development and characterization of hydrogels based on chitosan and xyloglucan from Chia Seed (Salvia Hispanica L.)
   6. Bioresorbable polymers for use in tissue engineering: PLA, PGA and their Copolymers
   7. Technological challenges and advances: from lactic acid to Polylactate and co-polymers
   8. PLGA scaffolds: Building blocks for the new age of biomaterials
   9.  Biodegradable scaffolds based on chitosan-g-polylactide copolymers
   10. Electro-spun Scaffolds of Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate). Morphology, aging and Adhesion and Cell Viability of HEK293 and NHOst cells
   11. Polyurethane-based structures obtained by 3D printing technologies
   12. Composites based on bio-derived polymers: potential role in tissue engineering
   13. Techniques for the fabrication of inorganic scaffolds
   14. Composite Scaffolds for Bone and Osteochondral Defects
   15. Pristine and Plasma Treated Thermoplastic Biopolymers/Biocomposites in Tissue Engineering and Biodegradable Implants
   16. The design of two different structural scaffolds using β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) and collagen for bone tissue engineering
   17. Composite materials based on hydroxyapatite embedded in biopolymer matrices. Ways of synthesis and application
   18. Biopolymers-Graphene Oxide Nanoplatelets Composites with Enhanced Conductivity and Biocompatibility Suitable for Tissue Engineering Applications
   19. Study of microstructural, structural, mechanical, and vibrational properties of defatted trabecular bovine bones: natural sponges
   20. Laser Processing of Biocompatible Polymers for Development of Mems for Medical and High-tech Applications