Nanofabrication Towards Biomedical Applications focuses on the materials, synthetic methods, tools and techniques being developed in the nanoregime towards the life sciences -- in particular biology, biotechnology and medicine.

Readers from materials science, engineering, chemistry, biology and medical backgrounds will find detailed accounts of the design and synthesis of nanomaterials and the tools and techniques involved in their production for applications in biology, biotechnology and medicine.

Contents:

1. Synthetic approaches to metallic nanomaterials
2. Synthetic approaches for carbon nanotubes
3. Nanostructured systems from low-dimensional building blocks
4. Nanostructured collagen mimics in tissue engineering
5. Molecular biomimetics : building materials natures way, one molecule at a time
6. Electron microscopy techniques for characterization of nanomaterials
7. X-ray methods for the characterization of nanoparticles
8. Single-molecule detection and manipulation in nanotechnology and biology
9. Nanotechnologies for cellular and molecular imaging by MRI
10. Nanotechnology in nonviral gene delivery
11. Nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery
12. Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of metal nanoshells
13. Decorporation of biohazards utilizing nanoscale magnetic carrier systems
14. Nanotechnology in biological agent decontamination
15. Too small to see : educating the next generation in nanoscale science and engineering
16. Nanobiomedical technology : financial, legal, clinical, political, ethical, and societal challenges to implementation

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ORDER NOW Nanofabrication Towards Biomedical Applications Techniques, Tools, Applications, and Impact edited by Challa S.S.S. Kumar, Josef Hormes, and Carola Leuschner 2005 • 420 pages • $199.00 + shipping Texas residents please add 6.75 % sales tax