Metal Oxides for Biomedical and Biosensor Applications

Metal Oxides for Biomedical and Biosensor Applications gives an in-depth overview of the emerging research in the biomedical and biosensing applications of metal oxides, including optimization of their surface and bulk properties. Sections cover biomedical applications of metal oxides for use in cell cultures, antibacterial and antimicrobial treatments, dental applications, drug delivery, cancer therapy, immunotherapy, photothermal therapy, tissue engineering, and metal oxide-based biosensor development. As advanced and biofunctionalized nano/micro structured metal oxides are finding applications in microfluidics, optical sensors, electrochemical sensors, DNA-based biosensing, imaging, diagnosis and analysis, this book provides a comprehensive update on the topic.

Additional sections cover research challenges, technology limitations, and future trends in metal oxides and their composites regarding their usage in biomedical applications.

Section 1: Biomedical applications of metal oxides

1. Bioactivity, biocompatibility and toxicity of metal oxides

2. Drug delivery using metal oxide nanoparticles

3. Cancer therapy, Immunotherapy, photothermal therapy

4. Metal oxides for cosmetics, sunscreens

5. Role of light-active metal oxide based nanohybrids in biofilm annihilation devices

6. Introduction to biosensing

7. Exploring the potential of metal oxide nanoparticles for biomedical devices

8. Surface coating and functionalization of metal and metal oxides nanoparticles for biomedical applications

9. Metal oxides based microfluidic biosensing

10. Metal/metal oxides for electrochemical DNA biosensing

11. Metal oxides and their composites for biomonitoring application

12. Metal oxides for optical biosensing

13. Metal oxides for detection of cardiac biomarkers

14. Regulating cell function through micro and nano structured transition metal oxides

15. Biomedical application of ZnO Nano-scale Materials

16. TiO2 nanostructures for biomedical applications

17. ZrO2 in biomedical applications

18. Iron oxides and its prospects for biomedical applications

19. Palladium decorated InGaZnO for Flexible Sweat sensors

20. Layered metal oxides for biomedical devices

21. Metal oxide/graphene nanocomposites and their biomedical applications

22. Liquid metal-based soft actuators and sensors for biomedical applications