Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering (eBook)

Clarisse Ribeiro, Unai Silvan, Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez (Herausgeber)

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2024
378 Seiten
Wiley-VCH (Verlag)
978-3-527-83890-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Enables advanced tissue regeneration approaches via expertise from the fields of materials science and biology

Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering comprehensively reviews the use of stimuli-responsive materials in the context of advanced tissue engineering approaches, highlighting applications, challenges, and solutions and reporting on the current state of the art of smart and multifunctional materials being used for tissue engineering, focusing on material types and their properties.

The progress that has already been achieved in the field is put into perspective by covering the remaining challenges in the research field of tissue engineering, and solutions are outlined to overcome those. By addressing challenges and ways to overcome them, Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering is a highly practical resource on advanced tissue regeneration.

Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering contains information on:

• Smart and multifunctional materials for tissue engineering, covering electroactive and magnetoactive materials
• Shape memory, photo-responsive, and controlled degradation of stimuli-responsive materials
• Tissue regeneration strategies based on smart and active biomaterials, covering bone, heart, and neural tissue regeneration
• Main applications where these biomaterials can be applied, such as in bone, muscle, and skin regeneration
• Other potential areas where the covered biomaterials are expected to make a major impact in the next decade

With comprehensive coverage of the subject, Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering is an essential resource for materials scientists, bioengineers, engineering scientists, and biotechnologists seeking to understand advanced tissue regeneration approaches, current challenges, and potential solutions to advance progress in the field.

Clarisse Ribeiro is Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Minho, Portugal.

Unai Silván is Research Associate at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures in Leioa, Spain.

Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez is Research Professor and Scientific Director of the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures in Leioa, Spain. His work is focused in the area of polymer-based smart materials for sensors and actuators, energy, and biomedical applications.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: electroactive tissue engineering • magnetoactive tissue engineering • multifunctional materials tissue engineering • neural tissue regeneration • Smart tissue engineering • stimuli-responsive materials • tissue regeneration strategies
• ISBN-10: 3-527-83890-2 / 3527838902
• ISBN-13: 978-3-527-83890-5 / 9783527838905