Functional Marine Biomaterials Properties and Applications Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials Series

Functional Marine Biomaterials: Properties and Applications provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals.

As recent advances and funding has enabled scientists to begin harnessing many of these materials for biomedical applications from drug delivery to bone tissue engineering and biosensors, this important new text provides readers with a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field.

Chapters discuss the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices.

Part 1 Introduction to marine biomaterials 1. Discovery and development of marine biomaterials Besim Ben-Nissan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 2. Properties of marine biominerals Werner Mueller, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Part 2 Applications of marine products in tissue engineering 3. Bone tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Se-Kwon Kim 4. Cardiovascular tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Roberto Parravicini, University of Modena, Italy 5. Skin tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Sylvia Colliec-Jouault, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Marine Molecules, Ifremer, France 6. Liver Tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Chong-Su Cho, Soeul National University

Part 3 Applications of marine products in drug delivery systems and nano-pharmaceuticals 7. Functionalisation of marine materials for drug delivery systems Sevda Senel 8. Drug delivery systems and tissue engineering scaffolding using marine derived products Tiago H. Silva, University of Minho, Portugal 9. Anti-inflammatory drug delivery systems using marine products Chandra P. Sharma, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, India

The book should appeal to biomaterials scientists in industry and academia with an interest in tissue engineering and drug delivery.

Professor Se-Kwon Kim was the first president of the Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan (1986-1990) and the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology (2006-2007). He was also the chairman for the 7th Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium, which was held in South Korea in 2006. He is one of the board members of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. Moreover, he was the editor in chief of the Korean Journal of Life Sciences (1995-1997), the Korean Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology (2006-2007), and the Korean Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology (2006-present). His research has been credited with the best paper award from the American Oil Chemist’s Society (AOCS) and the Korean Society of Fisheries Science and Technology in 2002.

Professor Se-Kwon Kim’s major research interests are investigation and development of bioactive substances derived from marine organisms and their application in oriental medicine, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals via marine bioprocessing and mass- production technologies. He has also conducted research on the development of bioactive materials from marine organisms for applications in oriental medicine, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals. To date, he has authored over 600 research papers and holds 152 patents. In addition, he has written or edited more than 60 books.

• Provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals
• Presents a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field
• Discusses the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices