Nanomaterials and Their Biomedical Applications

This book highlights the evolution of, and novel challenges currently facing, nanomaterials science, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology, and their applications and development in the biological and biomedical fields. It details different nanoscale and nanostructured materials syntheses, processing, characterization, and applications, and considers improvements that can be made in nanostructured materials with their different biomedical applications. The book also briefly covers the state of the art of different nanomaterials design, synthesis, fabrication and their potential biomedical applications. It will be particularly useful for reading and research purposes, especially for science and engineering students, academics, and industrial researchers.

Nanomaterials: An Introduction.- Metallic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications.- Size and Shape Selective Metal Oxide Nanomaterials: Preparation, Characterization and Prospective Biomedical Applications.- Nanofibers and Nanosurfaces.- Nanoceramics: Synthesis, Characterizations, and Applications .- Biomedical Applications of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials.- Solution Combustion Synthesis of Calcium Phosphate-Based Bioceramic Powders for Biomedical Applications.- Nanomaterials in Medicine.- Hydrogels: Biomaterials for Sustained and Localized Drug Delivery.- Nanomaterials: Versatile Drug Carriers for Nanomedicine.- Nanomaterials for Medical Implants.- Fabrication of Nanostructured Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications.- Nanomaterials for Medical Imaging and In Vivo Sensing.- Nanomaterials: Surface Functionalization, Modification and Applications.- Laser Induced Micro/Nano Functional Surfaces on Metals for Biomedical Applications.- Surface Nanostructuring of Metallic Materials for Implant Applications.- Tailoring the Surface Functionalities of Titania Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications.

Dr Tuhin Subhra Santra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Design at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, from July 2016. Currently, he is a tenure track Honorary Visiting Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, having previously served as Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Bio-Nano Electro Mechanical Systems from National Tsing Hua University in 2013, and conducted his postdoctoral research at the California Nano System Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. His main research areas are Bio-NEMS, MEMS, single cell technology, and nanomedicine, among many others. He is the editor of the books Microfluidics and Bio-NEMS: Devices and Applications (2020) and Essentials of Single Cell Analysis (2016)