Biomedical Applications of Hydrogels Handbook
Hydrogels are networks of polymer chains which can produce a colloidal gel containing over 99 per cent water. The superabsorbency and permeability of naturally occurring and synthetic hydrogels give this class of materials an amazing array of uses. These
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Editor-in-Chief
Raphael M. Ottenbrite Editors
Kinam Park Teruo Okano
Biomedical Applications of Hydrogels Handbook
Editor-in-Chief Raphael M. Ottenbrite Professor Emeritus Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA, USA [email protected] Editors Kinam Park Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutics Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA [email protected]
Teruo Okano Institute of Biomedical Engineering Tokyo Women’s Medical University Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan [email protected]
Associate Editors Rolando Barbucci Interuniversity Research Centre for Advanced Medical Systems University of Siena Siena, Italy [email protected]
Arthur J. Coury Vice President Biomaterials Research Genzyme Corporation Cambridge, MA, USA [email protected]
Haruma Kawaguchi Graduate School of Science and Technology Keio University Yokohama, Japan [email protected]
Advisory Board Chair Nicholas A. Peppas Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5918-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5919-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5919-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010929391 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Advisory Board
Nicholas A. Peppas, Chair Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA Allan Hoffman University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA Emo Chiellini Chemistry & Industrial Chemistry University of Pisa Pisa, Italy Fu-Zhai Cui Director of Biomaterials Tsinghua University Beijing, China Karel Dusek Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, CHEK Jindrich Kopecek Department of Bioengineering and of Pharmaceutics and Pharmceutical Chemistry, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Claudio Migliaresi Department of Materials Engineering University of Trento Trento - Italy Yoshihito Osada Division of Biological Sciences Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan Buddy D. Ratner Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials University of Washington Seattle, WA USA
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Nathan Ravi Department of Ophthalmology Washington University Etienne
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