Beschreibung:
This book explores the potential of hydrogels as a multiutility system and their benefits (biocompatibility, degradability, and supporting scaffolds) for a wide range of applications in diagnostics and therapeutics. It also discusses the future prospects and challenges facing hydrogels. A wide variety of smart hydrogels (conducting, stimuli responsive, and others) with possible biomedical applications are elaborated. The book demonstrates the effectiveness of hydrogels in diagnostics of diseases in various in vivo and in vitro environments and highlights the engineering/functionalization of hydrogels for everyday drug dosage as an efficient drug carrier, scaffold, and sensing application.
1. Hydrogels and their fundamentals. 2. Role of Nano-biotechnology in hydrogels and their medicinal advancements. 3. Conducting polymer-based hydrogels and scaffolds. 4. Smart hydrogels and their responsiveness. 5. Hydrogel for sensing application. 6. Biomedical application of hydrogel and their importance. 7. Hydrogels and their imaging application. 8. Hydrogels in tissue engineering. 9. Antibacterial Hydrogels and Their Implications. 10. Challenges and future prospects associated with smart hydrogels for drug delivery and imaging.