Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Nanomaterials-based Drug Delivery

Table of Contents

1. Superiorities of nanoscale materials in drug delivery
2. Three-dimensional bioprinting in drug delivery
3. Drug-coated nanoparticles: the magic bullets for threatening diseases, with special reference to tuberculosis
4. Biomedical applications of PLGA particles
5. A review of nanocellulose in the drug-delivery system
6. Cellulosic medicine hydrogels with cytoand biocompatible properties for ultrasound stimuli-drug release materials
7. PHAs as matrices for drug delivery
8. Polylactide: polymer revolutionizing the biomedical field
9. Chitosan and lipids composites as versatile biomedical material
10. Hydrogel and nanocomposite hydrogel drug-delivery systems for treatment of cancers
11. Porous three-dimensional polymer composites for tailored delivery of bioactives and drugs
12. Magnetic Nanoparticles: Applications in biomedical processes as synergic drug delivery systems
13. Biomedical applications of magnetite nanoparticles
14. Phantom gels towards medicine improvement: uses for magnetic device tests and enhancements on magnetic-dependent clinical techniques
15. Properties and therapeutic potential of solid lipid nanoparticles and nanostructured lipid carriers as promising colloidal drug delivery systems

Authors

Alina Maria Holban Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books. Alexandru Grumezescu Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books.