Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart

Functional Marine Biomaterials

Properties and Applications

  • 1st Edition - June 25, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Se-Kwon Kim
  • Language: English

Functional Marine Biomaterials: Properties and Applications provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substance… Read more

World Book Day celebration

Where learning shapes lives

Up to 25% off trusted resources that support research, study, and discovery.

Explore resources

Description

Functional Marine Biomaterials: Properties and Applications provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals.

As recent advances and funding has enabled scientists to begin harnessing many of these materials for biomedical applications from drug delivery to bone tissue engineering and biosensors, this important new text provides readers with a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field.

Chapters discuss the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices.

Key features

  • Provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals
  • Presents a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field
  • Discusses the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices

Readership

The book should appeal to biomaterials scientists in industry and academia with an interest in tissue engineering and drug delivery.

Table of contents

  • List of contributors
  • Part One: Introduction to marine biomaterials
    • 1: Discovery and development of marine biomaterials
      • Abstract
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1.1 Introduction
      • 1.2 Marine environment
      • 1.3 Growing biomaterials with living cells
      • 1.4 Tissue engineering
      • 1.5 Learning crystallography from sea urchin
      • 1.6 Nacre
      • 1.7 Echinoderm skeletal elements
      • 1.8 Drug delivery and marine structures
      • 1.9 Marine structures and stem cell regulation
      • 1.10 Concluding remarks
    • 2: Properties and applications of biosilica enzymatically synthesized by aquatic/marine sponges
      • Abstract
      • Acknowledgments
      • 2.1 Introduction
      • 2.2 Silicatein-based siliceous spicule formation
      • 2.3 Spiculogenesis
      • 2.4 Biosilica: The enzymatically formed scaffold of siliceous sponge spicules
      • 2.5 Self-healing property of silicatein embedded in spicules
      • 2.6 Biosilica: The osteogenic bioinorganic polymer
      • 2.7 Future design of novel bio-inspired, silica-based materials
  • Part Two: Applications of marine products in tissue engineering
    • 3: Bone tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials
      • Abstract
      • Acknowledgments
      • 3.1 Introduction
      • 3.2 Bone structure
      • 3.3 Marine-derived biomaterials for bone tissue engineering
      • 3.4 Recommendations and conclusion
    • 4: Cardiovascular tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials
      • Abstract
      • 4.1 Introduction
      • 4.2 Characteristics of cardiovascular implantable grafts
      • 4.3 Current options, their advantages, and disadvantages
      • 4.4 Tuna cornea
      • 4.5 Tuna cornea application to cardiac valves
      • 4.6 Potential future trends
    • 5: Skin tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials
      • Abstract
      • 5.1 Introduction
      • 5.2 An overview of the major advances in skin tissue engineering strategies
      • 5.3 A new generation of skin substitutes with marine products
      • 5.4 Conclusion
    • 6: Liver tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials
      • Abstract
      • 6.1 Introduction
      • 6.2 Mechanism of specific interaction between galactose moiety of the galactose-carrying biomaterials and ASGPR on the hepatocytes
      • 6.3 Importance of 3D culture system
      • 6.4 Marine biomaterials as an artificial ECM
      • 6.5 Summary
  • Part Three: Applications of marine products in drug delivery systems and nano-pharmaceuticals
    • 7: Functionalization of marine materials for drug delivery systems
      • Abstract
      • 7.1 Introduction
      • 7.2 Chitosan
      • 7.3 Alginate
      • 7.4 Drug delivery systems
      • 7.5 Conclusion
    • 8: Drug delivery systems and cartilage tissue engineering scaffolding using marine-derived products
      • Abstract
      • Acknowledgments
      • 8.1 The emergence of marine biomaterials in the biomedical arena
      • 8.2 Applications for controlled release of bioactive compounds
      • 8.3 Cartilage tissue engineering
      • 8.4 Final remarks
    • 9: Anti-inflammatory drug delivery systems using marine products
      • Abstract
      • 9.1 Introduction
      • 9.2 Marine compounds with anti-inflammatory activity
      • 9.3 Chemistry and pharmacological activity
      • 9.4 Conclusion and future scope
  • Index

Review quotes

"...concerned with the niche areas of marine biomaterials, their properties and applications…chapters are generally thorough. Citations to the original sources are used extensively to support the text."—Biotechnology Advances

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 29, 2015
  • Language: English

About the editor

SK

Se-Kwon Kim

Professor Se-Kwon Kim, PhD, currently serves as a senior professor in the Department of Chemistry and the director of the Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University in the Republic of Korea. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Pukyong National University and joined as a faculty member. He has previously served as a scientist in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1988-1989), and was a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (1999-2000).

Professor Se-Kwon Kim was the first president of the Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan (1986-1990) and the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology (2006-2007). He was also the chairman for the 7th Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium, which was held in South Korea in 2006. He is one of the board members of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. Moreover, he was the editor in chief of the Korean Journal of Life Sciences (1995-1997), the Korean Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology (2006-2007), and the Korean Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology (2006-present). His research has been credited with the best paper award from the American Oil Chemist’s Society (AOCS) and the Korean Society of Fisheries Science and Technology in 2002.

Professor Se-Kwon Kim’s major research interests are investigation and development of bioactive substances derived from marine organisms and their application in oriental medicine, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals via marine bioprocessing and mass- production technologies. He has also conducted research on the development of bioactive materials from marine organisms for applications in oriental medicine, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals. To date, he has authored over 600 research papers and holds 152 patents. In addition, he has written or edited more than 60 books.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry and Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea

View book on ScienceDirect

Read Functional Marine Biomaterials on ScienceDirect