Murugan Ramalingam & Seeram Ramakrishna 
Integrated Biomaterials for Biomedical Technology 

This cutting edge book provides all the important aspects dealing with the basic science involved in materials in biomedical technology, especially structure and properties, techniques and technological innovations in material processing and characterizations, as well as the applications.

The volume consists of 12 chapters written by acknowledged experts of the biomaterials field and covers a wide range of topics and applications including:

* The different types of nanobiomaterials

* How to generate porous biomaterials for tissue engineering

* Calcium phosphate-based biomaterials intended for mineralized tissue regenerative applications

* Nanocrystalline form of calcium phosphates

* Design and fabrication of Si O2 nanoparticles

* New kinds of titanium alloy implants

* Injectable growth factor system based on bone morphogenetic proteins

* Impedance sensing of biological processes in mammalian cells

* Hydrogels-based implantable glucose sensors

* Molecular design of multifunctional polymers for gene transfection

* Hydrogels and their potential biomedical applications

* Hybrid biomaterials with high mechanical and biological properties

Over de auteur

About the Editors

Murugan Ramalingam is an Associate Professor of Biomaterials
and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et
de la Recherche Médicale U977, Faculté de Chirurgie
Dentaire, Université de Strasbourg (Ud S), France.
Concurrently, he holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the
Tohoku University, Japan.

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Assistant Professor of
Nanobioelectronics at Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM,
Linköping University, Sweden, as well as Editor-in-Chief of
Advanced Materials Letters.

Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, FNAE, FAIMBE, is the Director
of HEM Labs at the National University of Singapore. He has
authored five books and over 400 international journal papers,
which have garnered more than 14, 000 citations.

Hisatoshi Kobayashi is a group leader of WPI Research
center MANA, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba,
Japan. He is currently the President of the International
Association of Advanced Materials.