Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures
- 1st Edition - September 29, 2022
- Editors: Sabu Thomas, Phil Coates, Ben Whiteside, Blessy Joseph, Karthik Nair
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 7 5 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 3 4 9 - 1
Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields – including wound closure - particularly… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis book is a useful resource for academics and researchers in the materials science and biomedical engineering fields, as well as professionals in biomaterials and biotextiles development and clinicians looking to learn more about suture material properties and suture/body interactions.
- Depicts recent advances in both the therapeutic effects of polymer-based sutures, as well as the various manufacturing techniques employed in the production of sutures
- Offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering material properties and engineering technologies, as well as an understanding of the biological properties of sutures, such as suture/body interactions
- Comprehensive coverage allows both experienced researchers in the area and new entrants (such as clinicians) to learn more about this important topic
2. Functionalization of sutures
3. Improving the therapeutic value of sutures
4. Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures
5. Polymers for surgical sutures
6. Smart sutures
7. Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization
8. Engineering aspects of suture fabrication
9. Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview
10. Suture materials, emerging trends
11. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures
12. Shape memory polymers as sutures
13. Drug release kinetics of sutures
- No. of pages: 326
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 29, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128197509
- eBook ISBN: 9780323853491
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Sabu Thomas
Professor Sabu Thomas is the Director of Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also currently the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park (TrESPARK), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is a highly committed teacher and a remarkably active researcher well-known nationally and internationally for his outstanding contributions in polymer science and nanotechnology. He has published over 1400 research articles in international refereed journals. and has also edited and written 210 books. His H-index is 140 and total citations are more than 94,000. He has supervised 125 PhD theses. He has received many international and national awards and recognitions. Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University has been transformed into a top University in India.
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