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Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Prashant Kesharwani + 1 more
  • English
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Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery compiles the latest advances in the development and application of QD nanocarriers for delivery of a range of therapeutic agents. QDs are widely accepted because of their dominant striking characteristics including biocompatibility, photoluminescence, morphology, size, and stability. This book systematically reviews the benefits and challenges of using QDs in drug delivery applications, evaluating their toxicity, safety, preclinical and clinical aspects.Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery is of interest to a broad audience, including researchers and academics working in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical science and biomedical engineering.

Treatise on Process Metallurgy

  • 2nd Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Alexander McLean + 4 more
  • English
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Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume Two, Process Phenomena provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products. In these fully updated volumes, coverage is expanded into four volumes, including Process Fundamentals, encompassing process fundamentals, structure and properties of matter; thermodynamic aspects of process metallurgy, and rate phenomena in process metallurgy; Processing Phenomena, encompassing interfacial phenomena in high temperature metallurgy, metallurgical process phenomena, and metallurgical process technology; Metallurgical Processes, encompassing mineral processing, aqueous processing, electrochemical material and energy processes, and iron and steel technology, non-ferrous process principles and production technologies, and more.The work distills the combined academic experience from the principal editor and the multidisciplinary four-member editorial board.

Natural Biopolymers for Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Amit Kumar Nayak + 2 more
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Natural Biopolymers for Drug Delivery thoroughly details the properties, benefits and challenges of using these biomaterials in drug delivery, with a strong focus on biocompatibility and reduction of unwanted interactions. An extensive range of natural biopolymers are explored, such as cellulose, chitosan, casein, gelatin, cashew gum, and many more. Biocompatibility, toxicity and regulatory considerations are also thoroughly discussed, ensuring the reader is fully equipped for efficient biomaterials selection and utilization in drug delivery applications. This is a must-have reference for those working in the fields of materials science, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical science and pharmacology, chemical engineering and clinical science.

Emerging Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • James McLaughlin + 2 more
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Emerging Sensors for Environmental Monitoring presents a comprehensive overview of chemical sensors, ranging from the choice of material to sensor validation, modeling, simulation, and manufacturing. It discusses the process of data collection by intelligent techniques such as deep learning and multivariate analysis, incorporates different types of sensors, and discusses each under a common set of sub-sections so that readers can fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of the relevant transducers—depending on the design, transduction mode, and final applications.This book provides a practical reference for Scientists, Researchers, Students, and Practitioners to deepen their knowledge base on the management of emerging contaminants, degradation of air, soil and water quality and indicators of ecological degradation.

Comprehensive Green Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Abdul Ghani Olabi
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Green Materials are materials that are understood to have at least one of the two following attributes: sustainability or low environmental impact. Optimally, they have these two labels simultaneously.Comprehensive Green Materials, 4 volume set, is the first fully-integrated resource to provide a full and comprehensive source of information and knowledge for both researchers and practitioners around the world on the fundamental, characteristics, applications, latest developments and case studies of Green Materials. Each in-depth review chapter is written by internationally recognized experts and contributions come from scientists working in a broad range of topics, including materials science, green energy, green industry and construction, engineering and green chemistry.

Smart Halloysite Nanotubes

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Deepak Rawtani + 2 more
  • English
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Smart Halloysite Nanotubes: Fundamentals and Applications takes its users on a journey that starts with a fundamental understanding and leads through the presentation of current research results to the latest developments and possibilities of applied use. An interesting discussion on commercialization strategies for the material concludes the 4-part manuscript, which is also complemented by an ancillary graphical abstract. Written by expert authors, the book is an essential reference for students and professional scientists or engineers in equal measure. Due to their distinctive characteristics, HNTs have garnered more and more attention by the scientific community in both academia and industry in recent years.

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Alejandro J. Paredes + 3 more
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Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges presents the latest advances in hydrogels, ranging from their basic chemistry to specific application of existing and novel hydrogels in controlled drug delivery and biomedicine. Hydrogels have been increasingly used in the development of novel formulations in a wide variety of therapeutic and monitoring applications. Multidisciplinary work carried out by researchers working in synthetic chemistry, drug delivery, biomedicine and other fields has led to the development of novel polymers, enabling the preparation of hydrogels with adjustable physicochemical properties. Accordingly, these materials offer multiple advantages over other drug delivery systems, including an increased patient compliance by reducing the required number of medication doses, reducing the healing time in injuries, and simplifying patient monitoring by reducing the invasiveness of current methods.Hydrogels in Drug Delivery is an essential resource for graduate students and researchers working within drug delivery and synthetic chemistry, biomedicine, material science, pharmacology, and chemical engineering.

Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • January 2, 2025
  • Anand Krishnan + 4 more
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Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications provides an introduction to exosomes and extracellular vesicles, including their unique properties and characterization, before detailing the most-utilized isolation, purification, and surface engineering techniques for their preparation as therapeutic and diagnostic agents. This book reviews recent developments in interdisciplinary research on exosome structure, properties, and engineering approaches as well as their use in diagnosis and treatment of a variety of illnesses such as cancer, tuberculosis, Alzheimer's disease, ophthalmic diseases, and others. Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications is an important reference for those interested in the development and application of exosomes and extracellular vesicles as biomaterials for us in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Digital Technologies in Olfaction

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Takamichi Nakamoto
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Digital Technologies in Olfaction: Fundamentals to Applications provides a comprehensive overview addressing how recent, digital, technological advances can be applied to olfaction. With an informatics approach into chemistry, the book introduces the extension of chemometrics in a modernized way such as deep learning and AI and applies it to machine olfaction.The book is systematically divided into three main sections: Odor sensing systems: Provides an overview for a variety of devices for odor sensing systems and addresses the concept of active sensing (sensing methodology) and its application to machine olfaction; Cheminformatics: Introduces chemometrics and the concept of odor space. This section also addresses odor reproduction and odor impression predictions; Olfactory displays: Addresses the applications of odor presentation and olfactory display. This section enables its readers to learn a modernized way of scent presentation.Digital Technologies in Olfaction: Fundamentals to Applications is a valuable resource for chemists and biologists who are interested in olfaction and artificial intelligence.

Pervious Concrete Pavements

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Hilal El-Hassan + 1 more
  • English
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Pervious Concrete Pavements: Design, Performance, and Applications provides both a comprehensive theoretical background and practical experiences on the performance of pervious concrete. The book explores the effects of various materials and process parameters on the mechanical, durability, and hydraulic properties of pervious concrete while also examining their hydrological design and water quality. The ability to upscale the use of pervious concrete in construction applications is investigated through field evaluation, lifecycle assessment, and performance prediction using artificial intelligence. The volume presents the latest findings in pervious concrete research, filling a gap in previous relevant publications.

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