NanoScience in Biomedicine
NanoScience in Biomedicine provides up-to-date information in the frontier fields of nano biomedicine focusing on basic concepts and recent developments in many topical areas including particular nanomaterials synthesis, field emission of carbon nanotubes
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NanoScience in Biomedicine
Donglu Shi
NanoScience in Biomedicine
With 292 figures
EDITOR: Donglu Shi Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA The Institute for Advanced Materials and Nano Biomedicine, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China Research Institute of Micro/Nano Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Preface
The research on nanomaterials and nano biomedicine has been advancing rapidly in recent years, particularly in the development of unique nanostructures for specific biomedical applications. The research addresses the critical issues in medical applications including in vivo imaging, cell targeting, local drug delivery and treatment, bioactivity, compatibility, and toxicity. In the biomedical applications, traditional materials science and engineering have to deal with new challenges in the areas of synthesis, structure development, and biological, chemical, and physical behaviors, since medical needs place new demands in these respects. The novel nanotechnologies included in this book are of great importance for biomedical applications. Based on these new developments, it is possible to alter the intrinsic properties of nanomaterials that cannot be achieved by conventional methods and materials. A key aspect of being able to manipulate the properties of the nanomaterials is the nanoscale architecture and engineering by various processing techniques. Some of
