Biofunctionalization of Nanoma: Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences: 1 - Hardcover

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Challa Kumar is currently the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Baton Rouge, USA. His research interests are in developing novel synthetic methods for functional nanomaterials and innovative therapeutic, diagnostic and sensory tools based on nanotechnology. He has eight years of industrial R&D experience working for Imperial Chemical Industries and United Breweries prior to joining CAMD. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, an international peer reviewed journal published by American Scientific Publishers, and the series editor for the ten-volume book series Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) published by Wiley-VCH. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow and at the Max Planck Institute for Carbon Research in Mulheim, Germany, as an invited scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, India.

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The Series
Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) is the first comprehensive source Covering the Convergence of materials and life sciences on the nanoscale, a wide field of research which brings together the main technology drive of the 21st century and existing, multibillion dollar markets.

Written by international experts describing the various facets of nanofabrication, the ten volumes of NTLS provide the underlying nanotechnologies for the design, creation and characterization of medical, biological and cybernetic applications. Each volume addresses in detail one particular facet of the field.

Tailor-made nanomaterials find widespread new opportunities in diagnostic and monitoring microdevices, microsurgery tools and instruments, tissue engineering, drug delivery artificial organs and any more. Making information available from all kinds of specialized sources through the disciplines involved, NtLS is essential reading for all scientists working in this field from medicine and biology through chemistry, materials science and physics to engineering.

This Volume
Volume 1 brings together the synthetic methods and materials aspects of instilling biocompatibility and desirable properties into nanomaterials, covering numerous types and methods.

From the Contents

• Biofunctionalization of Fluorescent, magnetic, phospholipid polymeric, metallic , and gelatin nanoparticles as well as of carbon nanotubes
• Nanomaterial-protein conjugation
• Folate-linked lipid-based nanoparticles in tumor-targeted gene therapy
• DNA attachment and hybridization on core-shell nanocomposites

Forthcoming Volumes
Biological and Pharmaceutical Nanomaterials

Nanosystem Characterization Tools in the Life Sciences

Nanodevices for the Life Sciences

Nanomaterials - Toxicity, health and Environmental Issues