Functional Marine Biomaterials

170 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Functional Marine Biomaterials: Properties and Applications provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals. As recent advances and funding has enabled scientists to begin harnessing many of these materials for biomedical applications from drug delivery to bone tissue engineering and biosensors, this important new text provides readers with a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field. Chapters discuss the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices.

• Reihe: Woodhead Publishing
• ISBN: 9781782420866
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2015
• Größe: 241 x 159 mm
• Verlag: Elsevier Inc
• Herausgegeben von: Se-Kwon Kim