Principles of Biomaterials Encapsulation: Volume One. Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials

Table of Contents

Section One Introduction 1. An introduction to biomaterials encapsulation 2. Encapsulation techniques overview

Section Two Encapsulation Principles and Techniques 3. Encapsulation of bioactive compunds: Role of nanotechnology 4. Morphology control in encapsulation 5. Encapsulation: Advances in cell encapsulation 6. Encapsulation: Spray chilling and cooling 7. Encapsulation: Spinning disk technology 8. Encapsulation: Fluidized bed coating technology 9. Encapsulation: Microemulsion 10. Encapsulation: Electrospray 11. Encapsulation: Melt dispersion 12. Encapsulation: Pan-coating 13. Encapsulation via electrospinning technology 14. Microencapsulation: Spray drying 15. Microencapsulation: Air suspension technique 16. Microencapsulation: Polymerization 17. Microencapsulation: Coacervation phase separation 18. Microencapsulation: Solvent evaporation 19. Microencapsulation: Extrusion 20. Microencapsulation: Dripping and jet break-up 21. Microencapsulation: Annular jet process 22. Microencapsulation: Phase inversion precipitation 23. Cell microencapsulation

Authors

Farshid Sefat Associate Professor, Biomedical and Electronic Engineering Department, University of Bradford, UK. Dr Farshid Sefat is Associate Professor and Program Leader in Biomedical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Bradford and previously was head of the Biomedical Engineering Department at King Faisal University (Saudi Arabia) and also a Visiting Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey, USA). He completed his post doctorate research assistant at University of Sheffield (UK) in the area of cornea tissue engineering. His research is based on developing biomaterials to control cellular behavior with particular emphasis in developing engineered materials for various tissue engineering applications. He is an author on >100 peer-reviewed journal articles, editorials, and review papers and >30 book chapters/edited books. He is on the editorial boards and reviewer of >30 numerous journals including Materials Today, Acta Biomaterialia, IEEE, Bone, MDPI, Journal of Orthopaedics & Rheumatology, Materials Science and Engineering C, Journal of Biomechanics and many more. Gholamali Farzi Professor, Polymer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran. Dr. Gholamali Farzi is a Professor of Polymer Engineering at Faculty of Engineering in Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran, where he is teaching polymer engineering and polymer composite materials for students in Ph.D. and MSc level. Dr. Farzi obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Lyon (France) in 2007, then he completed his post-doctoral fellowship in University of Lyon 1. Dr Farzi doing extensive research in the field of polymer encapsulation and he has very close collaboration with French universities. Masoud Mozafari Research Fellow, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Masoud Mozafari is a Fellow at Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Health Hospital, University of Toronto. He was previously Assistant Professor and Director of the Bioengineering Lab, at the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center, Cellular and Molecular Research Center, and Department of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine of the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran. Dr. Mozafari's research interests range across biomaterials, nanotechnology, and tissue engineering, and he is known for the development of strategies for the treatment of damaged tissues and organs, and controlling biological substances for targeted delivery into the human body. Dr. Mozafari has received several awards, including the Khwarizmi Award and the Julia Polak European Doctorate Award for outstanding translational research contributions to the field of biomaterials. He has also received the WIPO Medal for Inventors from The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in recognition of his contributions to economic and technological development. Dr. Mozafari is currently working on the editorial board of several journals.