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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139003903321

Titolo

Handbook of biodegradable polymers : synthesis, characterization and applications / / edited by Andreas Lendlein and Adam Sisson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

3-527-63581-5

3-527-63582-3

3-527-63583-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LendleinAndreas

SissonAdam L

Disciplina

620.19204223

668.9

Soggetti

Polymers - Biodegradation

Polymerization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Polyesters / Adam L. Sisson, Michael Schroeter, Andreas Lendlein -- Biotechnologically produced biodegradable polyesters / Jaciane Lutz Lenczak and Gl̀áucia Maria Falcão de Aragão -- Polyanhydrides / Avi Domb, Jay Prakash Jain, Neeraj Kumar -- Poly(orthoesters) / Jorge Heller -- Biodegradable polymers composed of naturally occurring a-amino acids / Ramaz Katsarava and Zaza Gomurashvili -- Biodegradable polyurethanes and poly(ester amide)s / Alfonso Rodríguez-Galán, Lourdes Franco, Jordi Puiggalí -- Carbohydrates / Gerald Dräger ... [et al.] -- Biodegradable shape-memory polymers / Marc Behl ... [et al.] -- Biodegradable elastic hydrogels for tissue expander application / Thanh Huyen Tran ... [et al.]  -- Biodegradable dendrimers and dendritic polymers / Jayant Khandare and Sanjay Kumar -- Analytical methods for monitoring biodegradation processes of environmentally degradable polymers / Maarten van der Zee -- Modeling and simulation of microbial depolymerization processes of xenobiotic polymers / Masaji Watanabe, Fusako Kawai -- Regenerative medicine : reconstruction of tracheal and pharyngeal mucosal defects



in head and neck surgery / Dorothee Rickert ... [et al.] -- Biodegradable polymers as scaffolds for tissue engineering / Yoshito Ikada -- Drug delivery systems / Kevin M Shakesheff -- Oxo-biodegradable polymers : present status and future perspectives / Emo Chiellini ... [et al.].

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive overview of biodegradable polymers, covering everything from synthesis, characterization, and degradation mechanisms while also introducing useful applications, such as drug delivery systems and biomaterial-based regenerative therapies. An introductory section deals with such fundamentals as basic chemical reactions during degradation, the complexity of biological environments and experimental methods for monitoring degradation processes.The result is a reliable reference source for those wanting to learn more about this important class of polymer materials, as well as scie