Nanostructured biomaterials for medical and biological applications

Nanostructured Biomaterials and Their Applications

Some of the most important advances in the life sciences have come from transitioning to thinking of materials and their properties on the nanoscale rather than the macro or even microscale. Improvements in imaging technology have allowed us to see nanofeatures that directly impact chemical and mechanical properties of natural and man-made materials. Now that these can be imaged and quantified,...

Nanostructured Active Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications

In recent years, considerable effort has been devoted to the design and controlled fabrication of nanostructured materials with functional properties. The layer by layer buildup of the polyelectrolyte multilayered films from oppositely charged polyelectrolytes [1] offers new opportunities for the preparation of functionalized biomaterial coatings. This technique allows the preparation of supram...

Nanostructured Biomaterials for Regeneration.

Biomaterials play a pivotal role in regenerative medicine, which aims to regenerate and replace lost/dysfunctional tissues or organs. Biomaterials (scaffolds) serve as temporary 3D substrates to guide neo tissue formation and organization. It is often beneficial for a scaffolding material to mimic the characteristics of extracellular matrix (ECM) at the nanometer scale and to induce certain nat...

Natural-Based Polyurethane Biomaterials for Medical Applications

Nanostructured Metallic Surfaces for Biological and Biomedical Applications

Abstract Noble metalllic electrodes, especially, gold, solid gold-amalgam, silver or palladium are very suitable for biological applications in the field of fragment biological samples detection such as microRNA or proteins as disease markers [1, 2]. Various nanostructured surfaces based on metallic nanopillars, nanorods or nanowires are usefull in microdevices . The present works deals with th...