Polymer and Photonic Materials Towards Biomedical Breakthroughs

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Van Hoorick, Jasper (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ottevaere, Heidi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Thienpont, Hugo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dubruel, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Van Vlierberghe, Sandra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials, Structures, and Systems,
• Subjects: Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Biomedical engineering.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Regenerative medicine.; Tissue engineering.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering.

This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application. It includes fundamental, applied, and industrial photonics. The authors cover synthesis, the modification and the processing of a variety of (bio)polymers includi...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Material Development & Processing
• Chapter 1. Development and characterization of photoresponsive polymers
• Chapter 2. Polymer processing through multiphoton absorption
• Chapter 3.Two-photon polymerization in tissue engineering
• Part II.Applications
• Chapter 4. Photoactivatable materials for cell biomechanics and mechanobiology
• Chapter 5. Photonics in drug delivery
• Chapter 6. Gene therapy approaches towards biomedical breakthroughs.