Polysaccharide Hydrogels

Characterization and Biomedical Applications
Herausgeber: Matricardi, Pietro; Coviello, Tommasina; Alhaique, Franco

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book bridges the gap between preparation of hydrogels, which is often discussed in books and reviews, and their characterization techniques. It aims to offer graduate students as well as researchers, including PhD students and those involved in R&D in pharmaceutical companies and academia, a valid support that can help them find appropriate keys to open the doors to the complex world of polysaccharide hydrogels. The first part of the book gives a wide overview of the most important approaches for the physicochemical characterization of hydrogels while the second one is mainly devoted to biomedical applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9789814613613
• ISBN-10: 9814613614
• Artikelnr.: 42579897

Autorenporträt

Pietro Matricardi is assistant professor at the Department of Drug Chemistry and Technologies, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. His scientific activity is focused on the development of new polysaccharide hydrogels for drug delivery applications and on the physico-chemical characterization of hydrogels. Franco Alhaique is professor emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where he teaches pharmaceutical technology. His major research interests include polysaccharide hydrogels and vesicles for drug delivery. He serves on the editorial board of scientific journals and is co-editor of the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology. Tommasina Coviello obtained her PhD in chemistry from University of Rome "La Sapienza", where she is associate professor of pharmaceutical technology. Her research topics, which deal with the physical-chemical characterization of polysaccharides and of polymeric drug delivery systems, have been published in more than 80 papers in international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Hydrogels. Rheological Characterization of Hydrogels.
Hydrogel Mesh Size Evaluation. Dynamic Light Scattering. NMR Methodologies
in the Study of Polysaccharides. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering of
Polysaccharide Hydrogels. The Method of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and
Its Application to the Structural Analysis of Oligo- and Polysaccharides in
Solution. Stimuli Responsive Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogels. Properties and
Biomedical Applications of Gellan Gum Hydrogels. Polysaccharide Hydrogels
with Magnetic Nanoparticles. Physical and Chemical Hyaluronic Acid
hydrogels and Their Biomedical Applications. Alginate Hydrogels: Properties
and Applications. Polysaccharide Hydrogels: The Present and the Future.