Editors: Anindya Basu, Anita Dutt Konar

Bioderived Materials: Harnessing Nature for Advanced Biochemical Handiwork

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ISBN: 978-981-5136-87-6 (Print)
ISBN: 978-981-5136-86-9 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2024
DOI: 10.2174/97898151368691240101

Introduction

Naturally-derived biomaterials invite immense interest from diverse segments of science and engineering. Recent decades have witnessed a leap in knowledge and efforts in ongoing research with biomaterials as synthons, yet biomaterial research never fails to create surprises. This book summarizes modern knowledge of bioderived materials for beginners in research and advanced readers in materials science.

The book lays the foundations of understanding the design and development of mimetic peptides and enzyme mimetic bioinorganic catalysts, including the toolsets used in the process. Next, the book demonstrates different approaches for obtaining task-specific designer hydrogels. Additional topics covered in the book are tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. From this point, the book presents information on complex biomaterials systems: bacterial cellulose, cell membrane architecture for nanocomposite material design, and whole cellular microorganisms. Chapters provide applied knowledge with information on the strategies used to design novel biomaterials for applications such as drug delivery, therapy and controlled chemical synthesis.

In summary, this book brings together a wealth of information on bioderived materials with versatile applications, derived from different sources, such as plant derivatives and microorganisms (in part or whole as synthons), benefitting readers from multidisciplinary backgrounds.

Readership:

Graduate students in materials science and biotechnology, industry professionals and early career researchers.

Foreword

Biomaterials hold critical solutions to the myriad of problems modern societies face. Consequently, over the past several decades, biomaterials research has undergone a sea-change, attracting scientists and engineers from almost all conceivable backgrounds to investigate them from their perspectives. A biomaterial scientist today thus needs to be equipped with a multi-disciplinary understanding of the different aspects of any material under question and must have a general awareness of the various modifications being tried out on different types of materials. This edited book attempts to provide awareness to the students and researchers in this field of the fundamental concepts associated with the design and development of such building blocks and, subsequently, how such ideas can be used to manipulate different biomaterials to achieve the desired goals. The book chapters, contributed by the researchers, are arranged in order of complexity, starting with the fundamental concepts associated with the design and development of organic and inorganic materials, different polymers used as scaffolds for tissue engineering and complex systems like cell membranes and even whole organisms. I hope this edited book will be an asset for any student or researcher engaged in biomaterials research.

Subhas C. Kundu
I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics
Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
University of Minho, AvePark - 4805-017 Barco
Guimaraes, Portugal