
Chitosan Based Biomaterials Volume 1
Fundamentals
- 1st Edition - September 22, 2016
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Jessica Amber Jennings, Joel David Bumgardner
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 2 3 0 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 2 5 7 - 5
Chitosan Based Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Volume 1, provides the latest information on chitosan, a natural polymer derived from the marine material chitin. Chitosan displays… Read more

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Request a sales quoteChitosan Based Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Volume 1, provides the latest information on chitosan, a natural polymer derived from the marine material chitin. Chitosan displays unique properties, most notably biocompatibility and biodegradability. It can also be easily tuned to modify its structure or properties, making chitosan an excellent candidate as a biomaterial. Consequently, chitosan is being developed for many biomedical functions, ranging from tissue engineering and implant coatings to drug and gene delivery. This book looks at the fundamentals of chitosan-based biomaterials.
- Contains specific focus on the techniques and technologies needed to develop chitosan for biomedical applications
- Presents a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals
- Provides contributions from leading researchers with extensive experience in chitosan
Biomaterials/chemistry researchers in academia and industry, biomedical engineers, post-grads
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- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
- Part One. Fundamentals of chitosan for biomedical applications
- 1. Fundamentals of chitosan for biomedical applications
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Chemical and biological properties of chitosans
- 1.3. Modification of chitosans
- 1.4. Some chitosan derivatives
- 1.5. Biomedical applications of chitosan and chitosan derivatives
- 1.6. Conclusion and perspectives
- 2. Antibacterial properties of chitosan
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Antibacterial activity
- 2.3. Chitosan derivatives and their bactericidal activity
- 2.4. Concluding remarks
- 3. Immunological responses to chitosan for biomedical applications
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Whole blood responses to chitosan
- 3.3. Polymorphonuclear leukocyte responses to chitosan
- 3.4. Macrophage responses to chitosan
- 3.5. Studies of innate and cell-mediated immune response
- 3.6. Effect of macrophage polarization
- 3.7. Influencing macrophage activation
- 3.8. Adaptive immune responses to chitosan
- 3.9. Methods to assay chitosan responses in vitro using human macrophage-like cell cultures
- 3.10. Conclusions and future trends
- List of abbreviations
- 4. Characterization of chitosan matters
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Physical properties
- 4.3. Cellular interactions
- 4.4. In vivo studies using chitosan in bone implant and tissue engineering applications
- 4.5. Characterization methods
- 4.6. Conclusion
- 1. Fundamentals of chitosan for biomedical applications
- Part Two. Chemical and physical modification of chitosan-based biomaterials
- 5. Deacetylation modification techniques of chitin and chitosan
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Deacetylation methods
- 5.3. Methods for determination of degree of deacetylation
- 5.4. Conclusions
- 6. Modifying the molecular weight of chitosan
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Merits of chitosan molecular weight modification
- 6.3. Methods of degradation of the molecular weight of chitosan
- 6.4. Mechanical degradation methods for modifying molecular weight
- 6.5. Factors affecting degradation rate
- 6.6. Methods for increasing degradation rate
- 6.7. Fractionation
- 6.8. Summary
- 7. Controlling chitosan degradation properties in vitro and in vivo
- 7.1. Background
- 7.2. Host response to degradable chitosan biomaterials
- 7.3. Effects of chitosan properties on degradation
- 7.4. Processing methods to reduce molecular weight
- 7.5. Experimental methods section
- 7.6. Conclusions
- 5. Deacetylation modification techniques of chitin and chitosan
- Part Three. Production techniques for chitosan-based biomaterials
- 8. Production of micro- and nanoscale chitosan particles for biomedical applications
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Chitosan micro- and nanoparticle preparation methods
- 8.3. Conclusions
- 9. Production of electrospun chitosan for biomedical applications
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Challenges and success in electrospinning of chitosan
- 9.3. Production of electrospun nanofiber from chitin to chitosan
- 9.4. Fiber collections: random and aligned fibers
- 9.5. Physical–chemical properties of nanofibers
- 9.6. Biomedical application of chitosan fibers
- 9.7. Fabrication method
- 9.8. Conclusion
- 10. Lyophilized chitosan sponges
- 10.1. Background
- 10.2. Drug delivery
- 10.3. Tissue engineering
- 10.4. Basics of lyophilization
- 10.5. Experimental methods section
- 10.6. Conclusions
- 11. Production of chitosan coatings on metal and ceramic biomaterials
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Important chitosan properties for the generation of surface coatings
- 11.3. Methods to improve chitosan coating adhesion
- 11.4. Methods of chitosan coatings on metals
- 11.5. Methods of chitosan coatings on ceramics
- 11.6. Methods of chitosan coatings on polymers
- 11.7. Conclusions
- Nomenclature
- 12. Production of chitosan-based hydrogels for biomedical applications
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Production of chitosan-based hydrogels
- 12.3. Smart hydrogels
- 12.4. Biomedical applications
- 12.5. Methods
- 12.6. Conclusions
- 8. Production of micro- and nanoscale chitosan particles for biomedical applications
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 22, 2016
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- No. of pages: 342
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780081002308
- eBook ISBN: 9780081002575
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