Beschreibung:
This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application. It includes fundamental, applied, and industrial photonics. The authors cover synthesis, the modification and the processing of a variety of (bio)polymers including thermoplasts (e.g. polyesters) and hydrogels (e.g. proteins and polysaccharides) for a plethora of applications in the field of optics and regenerative medicine.
Part I. Material Development & Processing.- Chapter 1. Development and characterization of photoresponsive polymers.- Chapter 2. Polymer processing through multiphoton absorption.- Chapter 3.Two-photon polymerization in tissue engineering.- Part II.Applications.- Chapter 4. Photoactivatable materials for cell biomechanics and mechanobiology.- Chapter 5. Photonics in drug delivery.- Chapter 6. Gene therapy approaches towards biomedical breakthroughs.