Title
Biomaterials: Design, Development and Biomedical Applications
Date Issued
08 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
University of Concepcion
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
The explorations in medical sciences have provided innumerable biomaterials that can perform, augment, or replace the natural function of a defective organ by interacting with the biological system. These materials represent a unique class of biomedical functional materials that potentially perform broad spectrum of biological activities in the absence of the original living tissue/organ, thereby replace the problems encountered with the defective tissue/organ and support smooth functioning of the organ and the living organism. The day-to-day increased demand in the medical field for the bioalternatives that could be able to perform the living activities of bodily organs has raised the interest of the researchers to design novel biomaterials. Hence, the study of biomaterials has become crucial for the material scientists and engineers to understand more about biomaterials. In that point of view, the present chapter focuses on the design, development, and biomedical applications of biomaterials.
Start page
21
End page
44
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química orgánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84941616652
ISBN
9780323353038
9780323328890
Source
Nanotechnology Applications for Tissue Engineering
Sponsor(s)
The author Gownolla Malegowd Raghavendra (IF 110192) acknowledges the Department of Science & Technology (DST, India) and Ministry of Science & Technology for providing financial assistance through Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) programme. The author Kokkarachedu Varaprasad thanks the Proyecto Fondecyt Postdoctorado N o 3130748, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile (South America).
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