This book provides an overview of the use of nanoparticles, carbon-nanotubes, liposomes, and nanopatterned flat surfaces for specific biomedical applications. This book explains the chemical and physical properties of the surface of these materials that allow their use in diagnosis, biosensing and bioimaging devices, drug delivery systems, and bone substitute implants. The toxicology of these particles is also discussed in the light of a new field referred to as nanotoxicology in this book. This book will be useful for engineers, researchers and industry professionals primarily in the fields of polymer science and engineering, materials science, surface science, nanocatalysis, biotechnology and biomedicine.
Dr Sreerag Gopi is a Chief Scientific Officer at Centre for Innovations and Technologies (CIT), ADSO Naturals Private Limited company, India. He also serves as Vice President (Research) at Curesupport Holding B.V, Netherlands. In research, Dr Sreerag has published more than 50 journal papers, several conference proceedings and authored 15 book chapters. He has more than 7 years of total experience in industrial and academic research in chemistry, material science including nanocomposites for drug delivery, environmental remediation and bioprinting. His area of interests are synthesis and functionalization of nanoparticles from biopolymers, application in drug delivery and liposomal encapsulations. He is a recipient of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus fellowship by European Union during his Ph. D period. Dr Sreerag is a member of Royal Society of Chemistry, Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute and Chartered Chemist at Royal chemical institute, Australia. He is a editor for several books published by Elsevier such as Handbook of Chitin and Chitosan 3 volumes and several on going projects in his hand with the collaboration of RSC, Springer, Apple Academic Press, Wiley and ACS.
Dr. Preetha Balakrishnan is the principal scientist, QA, QC ADSO naturals India and Curesupport Netherlands. She did her graduation in Chemistry from Calicut University Kerala India and postgraduation from Mahatma Gandhi University Kerala with Gold medal and first rank. She is a recipient of prestigious INSPIRE Fellowship from Government of India. She completed her Ph D in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University under the guidance of prof. Thomas, vice-chancellor, a renowned scientist in this area. She is an outstanding scientist with sustained international acclaims for his work in Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. She visited many foreign universities as a part of her research activities and published around 15 research articles, 20+ book chapters in peer reviewed international journals. She edited 10 books with leading publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, RSC across the globe. Dr. Preetha has received a number of National, international presentation award. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Thomas and did enormous works in biomaterials for tissue engineering. She also worked as a guest lecturer in Chemistry, at Department of Chemistry, Morning star Home science College Angamaly Kerala, India.
Dr Mubarak Nabisab Mujawar is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Curtin University, Malaysia. He serves as a scientific reviewer in numerous journals in the area of Chemical Engineering and Nano Technology. In research, Dr. Mubarak has published more than 190 journal papers, 30 conference proceedings and authored 25 book chapters and the H-index is 38. His area of interest is carbon nanomaterials synthesis, magnetic biochar production using microwave and wastewater treatment using advanced materials. He is a recipient of the Curtin Malaysia Most Productive Research award, outstanding faculty of Chemical Engineering award, Best Scientific Research Award London and outstanding scientist in publication and citation by i- Proclaim, Malaysia. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top two per cent of the world's most influential scientists in the area of chemical and energy. The List of the Top 2% Scientists in the World compiled and published by Stanford University is based on their international scientific publications, number of scientific citations for research, and participation in the review and editing of scientific research. Dr. Mubarak is a Fellow Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of The Institution of Engineers Australia and also a Chartered Chemical Engineer of the Institute of Chemical Engineering (IChemE) UK. He is co-editor for 4 ongoing Elsevier edited books: 1) Sustainable Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation 2) Nanomaterials for Carbon Capture and Conversion Technique, 3) Advanced nanomaterials and nanocomposites for Bio electrochemical Systems and 4) Green mediated synthesis-based nanomaterials for photocatalysis.
