Unfolding the biopolymer landscape / editor, Viness Pillay, Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown, 2193, South Africa ; co-editor, Yahya E. Choonara, Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown, 2193, South Africa ; assistant editor, Pradeep Kumar, Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown, 2193, South Africa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pillay, Viness, editor.

Choonara, Yahya E., editor.

Kumar, Pradeep, editor.

Series:

Frontiers in biomaterials ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolymers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sharjah : Bentham Science Publishers Limited, [2016]

Summary:

The need for the development of biomaterials as scaffold for tissue regeneration is driven by the increasing demands for materials that mimic functions of extracellular matrices of body tissues. Unfolding the Biopolymer Landscape provides a unique account of "biopolymeric interventions" inherent to biotechnological applications, soft tissue engineering, ophthalmic drug delivery, biotextiles, environmentally responsive systems, neurotherapeutics, and emulsions-based formulations for food and pharmaceutical applications. Chapters in this volume also cover biomedical applications and implications of cationic polymers, collagen-based substrates, multifunctional polymers, shape memory biopolymers, hybrid semisynthetic biomaterials, microbial exopolysaccharides, biomaterials mimicking the extracellular microenvironment, derivatized polysaccharides, and metallic biomaterials. Each chapter is distinctly written by experts in the respective fields and emphasis is given on the mechanistic profile of the performance of biopolymers and biomedical applications. This book provides both basic and advanced biopolymer information for scientific experts and early career researchers in the field of drug delivery, tissue engineering, nanomedicine, food technology, peptide science, biomaterial design, and nutrition.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Biblio Standard template- copyrights page-front matter; EUL; Contents; Foreword; Preface; LOC; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Chapter 08; Chapter 09; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 4, 2016).

ISBN:

9781681081953

1681081954