Bio-Applications of Nanoparticles

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chan, Warren C. W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 620
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

In this edited book, we highlight the central players in the Bionanotechnology field, which are the nanostructures and biomolecules. The book starts by describing how nanostructures are synthesized and by describing the wide variety of nanostructures available for biological research and application...

Table of Contents:

• Synthetic Strategies to Size and Shape Controlled Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Heterostructures
• Current Approaches for Engineering Proteins with Diverse Biological Properties
• Past, Present, and Future of Gold Nanoparticles
• Multi-Functional Gold Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
• Quantum Dots for Cancer Molecular Imaging
• Carbon Nanostructures as a New High-Performance Platform for MR Molecular Imaging
• Magnetic Nanoparticle Assisted Molecular MR Imaging
• Patterning Metallic Nanoparticles by DNA Scaffolds
• Liposomes in Biology and Medicine
• Fluorescent Nanoparticle for Bacteria and DNA Detection
• Dendrimer 101
• Quantum Dots and Other Fluorescent Nanoparticles: Quo Vadis in the Cell?
• Toxicity Studies of Fullerenes and Derivatives
• Toxicity Studies of Carbon Nanotubes.