Polymeric Hydrogels as Smart Biomaterials

✍ Scribed by Susheel Kalia (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is concerned with polymeric hydrogels, which are considered as one of the most promising types of new polymer-based materials. Each chapter in this book describes a selected class of polymeric hydrogels, such as superabsorbent hybrid nanohydrogels, conducting polymer hydrogels, polysaccharide-based or protein-based hydrogels, or gels based on synthetic polymers. In this way, the book also addresses some of the fascinating properties and applications of polymeric hydrogels: they are three-dimensional, hydrophilic, polymeric networks that can absorb, swell and retain large quantities of water or aqueous fluids. In combination with metal nanoparticles, nanofibrils or nanowhiskers, which may be embedded in the gels, they find widespread applications, ranging from agriculture, and waste water treatment, over electronics, to pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. Applications mentioned in this book include electro sensors, capacitors, electromechanical actuators, and even artificial muscles.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Polymeric Hydrogels: A Review of Recent Developments....Pages 1-17
Conductive Polymer Hydrogels....Pages 19-44
Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogels as Biomaterials....Pages 45-71
Protein-Based Hydrogels....Pages 73-104
Sterculia Gum-Based Hydrogels for Drug Delivery Applications....Pages 105-151
Antimicrobial Polymeric Hydrogels....Pages 153-170
Biopolymer-Based Hydrogels for Decontamination for Organic Waste....Pages 171-188
Chitosan and Starch-Based Hydrogels Via Graft Copolymerization....Pages 189-234

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods; Biomaterials; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Optical and Electronic Materials