| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 197 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Hydrogels and Tissue Engineering / Barbara Zavan / Roberta Cortivo / Giovanni Abatangelo -- Structure-Property Relationships in Hydrogels / Assunta Borzacchiello / Luigi Ambrosia -- Water and Surfaces: a Linkage Unexpectedly Profound / Gerald H. Pollack -- Polysaccharide Based Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications / Gemma Leone / Rolando Barbucci -- Hydrogels for Healing / Buddy D. Ratner / Sarah Atzet -- Stereocomplexed PEG-PLA Hydrogels / Christine Hiemstra / Zhiyuan Zhong / Pieter J. Dijkstra / Jan Feijen -- Hybrid Hydrogels Based on Poly(vinylalcohol)-Chitosan Blends and Relevant CNT Composites / Elizabeth G. Fernandes / Emo Chiellini / Cristina Bartoli / Federica Chiellini / Sangram K. Samal -- Poloxamine Hydrogels: from low Cell Adhesion Substrates to Matrices with Improved Cytocompatibility for Tissue Engineering Applications / Michael V. Sefton / Alejandro Sosnik / Mark Butler / Omar F. Khan -- Biohydrogels for the In Vitro Re-construction and In Situ Regeneration of Human Skin / Liudmila Korkina / Vladimir Kostyuk / Liliana Guerra -- Chitosan-Based Beads for Controlled Release of Proteins / Federica Chiellini / Anna Maria Piras / Mamoni Dash -- Synthesis of Stimuli-Sensitive Hydrogels in the um and sub-um Range by Radiation Techniques and their Application / Andreas Richter / Karl-Friedrich Arndt / Ingolf Monch -- Stimuli-Sensitive Composite Microgels / Haruma Kawaguchi -- Novel pH/Temperature-Sensitive Hydrogels Based on Poly([actual symbol not reproducible]-Amino Ester) for Controlled Protein Delivery / Doo Sung Lee / Dai Phu Huynh / Chaoliang He |
| Summary |
The studies on Biohydrogels have had a rapid, exponential evolution in the last decades. Starting from one of the first applications of hydrogels in surgery, polyvinylalcohol crosslinked with formaldehyde under the trade name of Ivalon, we passed through PolyHema hydrogels as contact lens materials, hydrophilic polyurethanes (HPU), biodegradable hydrogels for both reconstructive surgery and pharmaceutical delivery systems, and finally more recently, one decade old, the thermoreversible and transient network hydrogels. Of course all these classes of hydrogels have been always and continuosly studied, improving their performance and field of applications. Recently, most of them have been used as scaffolds for cells, even stem ones, for regenerative applications (tissue engineering). Nevertheless hydrogels are odd materials and many studies still have to be carried out to fully understand their behaviour from mechanical, physicochemical and biological point of view |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Colloids.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical.
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Science des matériaux.
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Chimie.
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Colloids
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Hydrogel
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Biomaterialen.
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Hydrogel.
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Polymeren.
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Colloïden.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barbucci, Rolando.
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| ISBN |
9788847011045 |
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8847011043 |
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