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Nanomedicine : technologies and applications / edited by Thomas J. Webster.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
- Woodhead Publishing series in biomaterials, 2049-9485 ; no. 49
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nanomedicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (705 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Woodhead Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nanotechnology is at the forefront of advances in medicine. Nanomedicine: Technologies and applications provides an important review of this exciting technology and its growing range of applications.After an introduction to nanomedicine, part one discusses key materials and their properties, including nanocrystalline metals and alloys, nanoporous gold and hydroxyapatite coatings. Part two goes on to review nanomedicine for therapeutics and imaging, before nanomedicine for soft tissue engineering is discussed in part three, including organ regeneration, skin grafts, nanotubes and self-a
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Materials, properties and considerations
- pt. 2. Nanomedicine for therapeutics and imaging
- pt. 3. Nanomedicine for soft tissue engineering
- pt. 4. Nanomedicine for bone and cartilage tissue engineering.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62870-381-4
- 0-85709-644-3
- OCLC:
- 867318084
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