Soft matter for biomedical applications / edited by Helena S. Azevedo, Jo�ao F. Mano and Jo�ao Borges.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 21, 2022).

This book addresses the state-of-the-art trends in the active and exciting field of bioinspired soft matter. It covers fundamentals and comprehension from the structural-property point of view, as well as materials and cuttingtechnologies that enable their design, fabrication, advanced characterization and underpin their biomedical applications.

The Mutable Collagenous Tissue of Echinoderms: From Biology to Biomedical Applications; Synchrotron X-ray Imaging Combined with Multiscale Modeling Applied to Biological Soft Tissues; Biomimetic and Collagen-based Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications; Silk Fibroin-based Soft Biomaterial/Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Strategies; Protein Aggregation Suppression and Folding Promotion by Synthetic Molecules; Levan Polysaccharide for Biomedical Applications; Alginate Particulate Gels for Oral Drug Delivery; Extending the Functionality of Marine-origin Polysaccharides Through Chemical Modification for Biomedical Applications; Elastin-like Recombinamers (ELRs) for Biomedical Applications; Minimalistic Peptide Self-assembly into Supramolecular Biomaterials; Recent Advances in the Design of Surface-initiated Polymer Brushes for Biomedical Applications; Bioinspired and Bioinstructive Surfaces to Control Mesenchymal Stem Cells; Biomimetic Surface Modifications of Biomaterials Using a Layer-by-layer Technique; Smart Porous Silica-Polymer Nanomaterials for Theranostics; Liposomes for Biomedical Applications; Cyclodextrin-based Drug Delivery Systems Manufactured by Emergent Technologies: 3D-printing, Electrospinning, Microneedles, Microfluidics and MOFs; Soft Fibrillar Biomaterials by Fibre Spinning Routes; Shaping Soft Structures Using Bottom-up Layer-by-layer Assembly Technology for Biomedical Applications; Nanobiomaterials for Smart Delivery; Liposomes in Targeted Drug Delivery; Polysaccharide-based Hydrogels for the Controlled Delivery of Therapeutic Biomacromolecules; Stimuli-responsive Drug Delivery Hydrogels; Stimuli-responsive Nanocomposite Hydrogels Incorporating Soft Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications; 3D-printed Soft Hydrogels for Cell Encapsulation; Decellularized Matrix Hydrogels for In Vitro Disease Modeling; Animal Protein-based Soft Materials for Tissue Engineering Applications; Soft Robotics Solutions for Minimally Invasive Surgery: The Need for Stiffness Controllability; Cell-based Soft Biomaterials

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