Murugan Ramalingam & Hisatoshi Kobayashi 
Biomedical Materials and Diagnostic Devices 

Biomedical Materials and Diagnostics Devices provides an up-to-date overview of the fascinating and emerging field of biomedical materials and devices, fabrication, performance, and uses

The biomedical materials with the most promising potential combine biocompatibility with the ability to adjust precisely the biological phenomena in a controlled manner. The world market for biomedical and diagnostic devices is expanding rapidly and the pace of academic research resulted in about 50, 000 published papers in recent years. It is timely, therefore, to assemble a volume on this important subject.

The chapters in the book seek to address progress in successful design strategies for biomedical materials and devices such as the use of collagen, crystalline calcium orthophosphates, amphiphilic polymers, polycaprolactone, biomimetic assembly, bio-nanocomposite matrices, bio-silica, theranostic nanobiomaterials, intelligent drug delivery systems, elastomeric nanobiomaterials, electrospun nano-matrices, metal nanoparticles, and a variety of biosensors.

This large and comprehensive volume includes twenty chapters authored by some of the leading researchers in the field, and is divided into four main areas: biomedical materials; diagnostic devices; drug delivery and therapeutics; and tissue engineering and organ regeneration.

About the author

Ashutosh Tiwari is an assistant professor of
nanobioelectronics at Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre,
IFM-Linköping University, Sweden, as well as Editor-in-Chief
of Advanced Materials Letters. He has published more than
125 articles and patents as well as authored/edited books in the
field of materials science and technology.

Murugan Ramalingam is an associate professor of
biomaterials and tissue engineering at the Institut National de la
Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de
Strasbourg (Ud S), France. Concurrently, he holds an adjunct
associate professorship at Tohoku University, Japan. He has
authored more than 125 publications and is Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Bionanoscience and Journal of Biomaterials and
Tissue Engineering.

Hisatoshi Kobayashi is group leader of Biofunctional
Materials at Biomaterials Centre, National Institute for Materials
Science, Japan. He has published more than 150 publications, books
and patents in the field of biomaterials science and technology, as
well as edited/authored three books on the advanced
state-of-the-art of biomaterials.

Professor Anthony P. F. Turner is currently Head of
Division, FM-Linköping University’s new Centre for Biosensors
and Bioelectronics. His previous thirty-five-year academic career
in the United Kingdom culminated in the positions of Principal
(Rector) of Cranfield University and Distinguished Professor of
Biotechnology. Professor Turner has more than 600 publications and
patents in the field of biosensors and biomimetic sensors and is
best known for his role in the development of glucose sensors for
home-use by people with diabetes. He published the first textbook
on Biosensors in 1987 and is Editor-In-Chief of the principal
journal in his field, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, which
he cofounded in 1985.