Biomedical Applications of Nanotechnology

✍ Scribed by Vasif Hasirci

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 209
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1352
• DOI: 10.1002/macp.200800183

✦ Synopsis

This is an edited book containing nine papers. Of these four (Papers 2, 3, 5, 7) are on nanoparticles, and dendrimers, six (Papers 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7) on drug and gene delivery, one on magnetic nanowires, one on sensing, one on thermodynamics of DNA complexes and one on nanotoxicology. Thus the main emphasis appears to be on drug delivery through nanoparticles. It can not be stated that this is a good distribution over the biomedical field. There appears to be no papers specifically on imaging and cell tracking, nanodots, Q-dots, surface modification by self assembled molecules, microfluidics and MEMS.

The authors of the papers are not that well known in the biomedical field, neither in the biomaterials nor in the drug delivery topics.