
Core-Shell Nanostructures for Drug Delivery and Theranostics
Challenges, Strategies and Prospects for Novel Carrier Systems
- 1st Edition - July 4, 2018
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Maria Focarete, Anna Tampieri
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 1 9 8 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 1 9 9 - 6
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Core-Shell Nanostructures for Drug Delivery and Theranostics: Challenges, Strategies and Prospects for Novel Carrier Systems contains valuable chapters that deal with the fundamentals of nanotechnology for drug delivery, recent developments and research in core-shell nanoparticles for drug-delivery and theranostic applications, and the potential and applications of core-shell nanofiber. This book is a highly valuable resource for scientists interested in the design and development of innovative drug delivery systems, researchers and graduate/postdoctoral students engaged in biomaterials for drug delivery, and R&D managers in the biomaterials and pharmaceutical industry.
- Focuses on core-shell nanoparticles and nanofiber for innovative applications, including cancer therapy, controlled release and multi-drug release
- Considers future prospects and potential new applications of core-shell nanostructures for drug delivery and theranostics
- Explains the principles and essential concepts of nanotechnology for drug delivery systems
Researchers in biomaterials for drug delivery, materials science, polymer science, bioengineering, and biochemistry; graduate and postdoc students; R&D managers in the biomaterials and pharmaceutical industries
Part I: Fundamentals on nanotechnology for drug delivery
1. Introduction to core-shell nanostructures for drug delivery
2. Physico-chemical properties of nanosized polymeric drug carrier systems
3. Biomineralization process generating hybrid nano-beads
4. Clinical applications of nanostructured drug delivery systems: from basic research to translational medicine
Part II: Core-shell nanoparticles
5. Core-shell nanoparticle technology
6. Core-shell nanoparticles for cancer therapy
7. Multifunctional hybrid Nanoparticles for Theranostics
8. Stimuli responsive core-shell nanoparticles
9. Magnetic core-shell nanoparticles: remote driving, hyperthermia and controlled drug release
10. Smart nano-systems for neurodegenerative diseases
Part III: Core-shell nanofiber
11. Coaxial electrospinning and emulsion electrospinning techniques
12. Drug release kinetics of electrospun fibrous systems
13. Applications of core-shell nanofibers: drug and biomolecules release and gene therapy
14. Core-shell nanofibers for multi-drug release
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 4, 2018
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
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