Smart Biomaterials

• Main Authors: Ebara, Mitsuhiro (Author), Kotsuchibashi, Yohei (Author), Narain, Ravin (Author), Idota, Naokazu (Author), Kim, Young-Jin (Author), Hoffman, John M. (Author), Uto, Koichiro (Author), Aoyagi, Takao (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: NIMS Monographs,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Gene therapy.; Polymers.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biomaterials.; Nanotechnology.; Materials Science.; Gene Therapy.; Polymer Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of smart biomaterials and their potential applications, a field that is developing at a very rapid pace. Because smart biomaterials are an emerging class of biomaterials that respond to small changes in external stimuli with large discontinuous changes in th...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Guide to Smart Biomaterials
• Smart Hydrogels
• Smart Nano assemblies and Nanoparticles
• Smart Surfaces
• Smart Nano fibers
• Smart Bio conjugates
• Shape-Memory Materials.