Preface ....................................................... xi
1 Polymers for Biomedical Applications ........................ 1
Ankur S. Kulshrestha and Anil Mahapatro
Synthesis of Biomaterials
2 From Drug-Eluting Stents to Biopharmaceuticals:
Poly(ester amide) a Versatile New Bioabsorbable
Biopolymer .................................................. 10
Zaza Gomurashvili, Huashi Zhang, Jane Da, Turner
D. Jenkins, Jonathan Hughes, Mark Wu, Leanne Lambert,
Kathryn A. Grako, Kristin M. DeFife, Kassandra MacPherson,
Vassil Vassilev, Ramaz Katsarava, and William G. Turnell
3 Chitosan Water-Soluble System: An Approach to Prepare
Superabsorbent Gel .......................................... 27
Suwabun Chirachanchai and Juthathip Fangkangwanwong
4 The Cyclization and Functionalization of Styrenic
Polymers .................................................... 37
Boyd A. Laurent, Dawanne M. Eugene, and Scott M. Grayson
5 High-Strength, Melt Processable, Aromatic
Poly(anhydride)s ............................................ 51
Kevin Cooper and Angelo Scopelianos
6 Fluorescently Labeled Protein-Polymer Bioconjugates Using
Protein-Derived Macroinitiators from Living Radical
Polymerization .............................................. 78
Julien Nicolas, Veronica San Miguel, Giuseppe Mantovani,
and David M. Haddleton
7 Adapting Polymeric Metal Complexes for Biomedical
Applications ................................................ 95
Cassandra L. Fraser and Gina L. Fiore
Characterization of Polymeric Biomaterials
8 Beyond Trial and Error: Tools to Advance the Engineering
of Biomaterials ............................................ 118
Lori A. Henderson, Matt J. Kipper, and Martin Y.M. Chiang
9 Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopic Characterization
of the Hydrolytic Degradation of Hydroxyl-Terminated
Poly(D,L-lactide) Materials ................................ 153
Mohammad K. Hassan, Jeffrey S. Wiggins, Robson F. Storey,
and Kenneth A. Mauritz
10 The Expanding Role of Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for
Polymer Chemistry .......................................... 170
E. Peter Maziarz, III, X. Michael Liu, and Troy D. Wood
Polymers for Drug Delivery
11 Synthesis and Properties of Functional
Poly(vinylpyrrolidinone) Hydrogels for Drug Delivery ....... 196
Louise E. Smith, Stephen Collins, Zuifang Liu, Sheila Mac
Neil, Rachel Williams, and Stephen Rimmer
12 Enzymatically Synthesized Pegylated Polymers as
Nanomicellar Drug Delivery Systems ......................... 204
Rajesh Kumar, Mukesh K. Pandey, Rahul Tyagi, Virinder S.
Parmar, Arthur C. Watterson, and Jayant Kumar
13 Novel Two-Photon Activated Photodynamic Therapy Agents:
Design, Synthesis, and Preclinical Studies on
Subcutaneous Cancerous Tumors .............................. 225
Aijun Gong, Fanqing Meng, Jean R. Starkey, Britney L.
Moss, Aleksandre Rebane, Mikhail Drobizhev, and Charles
W. Spangler
14 Synthesis and Characterization of Carborane
Functionalized Dendronized Polymers as Potential Boron
Neutron Capture Therapy Agents ............................. 238
S. Rahima Benhabbour and Alex Adronov
15 Biodegradable Ionomers for the Loading and Release
of Proteins: Formation, Characterization, Mechanism,
and Consequence of Water Uptake ............................ 250
Fredrik Nederberg, Björn Atthoff, Tim Bowden, Ken Welch,
Maria Strömme, and Jöns Hilborn
Polymeric Surfaces
16 An Overview of the Biocompatibility of Polymeric
Surfaces ................................................... 268
Katherine С. Glasgow and Dibakar Dhara
17 Reactive Polymer Coatings for Biological Applications ...... 283
Himabindu Nandivada, Hsien-Yeh Chen, Yaseen Elkasabi,
and Joerg Lahann
18 Optimization of Microdomain Structure to Control
Osteoblast Attachment on Poly(ethylene glycol)-
Poly(caprolactone) Polyurethanes ........................... 299
Gracy Wingkono and Carson Meredith
Other Biomedical Applications
19 Polymers for Tissue Engineering ........................... 310
Wei He, Yu Feng, Zuwei Ma, and Seeram Ramakrishna
20 Cell-Container Prepared with Cytocompatible
Phospholipid Polymers for Cell and Tissue Engineering ..... 336
Tomohiro Konno and Kazuhiko Ishihara
21 Evaluation of a Bioabsorbable Polyester Blend for Use
in Medical Devices: CRANIOSORBTM, a Novel Cranial
Fixation System ........................................... 346
Kevin Cooper, Yuru Li, Bruce Lowenhaupt, David Overaker,
Tom Poandl, Susan Trenka-Benthin, J. Yuan, and
M. Zimmerman
22 Biopolymers for Biosensors: Polypeptide Nanotubes
for Optical Biosensing .................................... 371
Hatice Duran, King Hang Aaron Lau, Anke Lübbert, Ulrich
Jonas, Martin Steinhart, and Wolfgang Knoll
Indexes
Author Index ................................................. 393
Subject Index ................................................ 395
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