Biopolymer-Based Nanomaterials in Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications

Over the past few decades, there has been unprecedented progress in the design of versatile biopolymer-based nanoplatforms for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, particularly due to their attractive traits, including excellent biocompatibility, outstanding biodegradability, low immunogenicity, and facile chemical modifiability. Biopolymer-Based Nanomaterials in Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications serves as a clear and detailed body of information on the synthesis and characterization of biopolymer-based materials in nanomedicine. This book describes various nanomaterials consisting of biopolymers including polysaccharides (i.e., derived from plants, animals, bacteria, algae, and fungi) and polypeptides in terms of their structures, synthetic protocols, and characterization and uses as therapeutic drugs and gene delivery carriers and in other biomedical fields. The chapters of this book, which are contributed by internationally renowned scholars working in the arena of biopolymer-based nanomaterials, would offer a wide vision on the potential future applications of these nanomaterials in the delivery and targeting of bioactive molecules of pharmaceutical interests and in tissue engineering, biosensing, bioimaging, and diagnostic purposes. The state-of-the-art information presented in the book would also encourage young investigators and researchers to further bring cutting-edge developments in the field of nanomedicine in the near future.

1. Biopolymer-based materials in nanomedicine: Synthesis and characterization

Theme 2 Plant-derived polysaccharide-based nanomaterials 2. Starch-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 3. Cellulose-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 4. Pectin-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 5. Konjac glucomannan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 6. Guar gum-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 7. Gum arabic-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications

Theme 3 Animal-derived polysaccharide based nanomaterials 8. Chitosan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 9. Hyaluronic acid-based nanosystems for drug delivery applications

Theme 4 Bacteria-derived polysaccharide-based nanomaterials 10. Curdlan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 11. Xanthan-based nanomaterials for drug delivery applications 12. Dextran-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 13. Gellan gum-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications

Theme 5 Algae/fungi-derived polysaccharide-based nanomaterials 14. Alginate-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 15. Carrageenan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications 16. Pullulan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications

Theme 6 Protein based nanomaterials 17. Gelatin-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 18. Collagen-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 19. Silk protein-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 20. Albumin-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 21. Zein-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 22. Casein-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications 23. Cell penetration peptide-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications

Postgraduate research students from various disciplines such as pharmacy, material science, biomedical science, molecular medicine, chemistry, food Science, engineering, biotechnology. This book would also serve as a resource of information for faculty, instructors and research supervisors working in academia and industrial researchers from pharmaceutical and biomedical industries.

• Provides a scholarly insight into the recent development of biopolymer-based nanomaterials
• Focuses on the diverse cutting-edge techniques for the fabrication of native and modified biopolymer-based nanoplatforms and their applications in drug delivery and biomedical fields
• Assesses the opportunities and challenges of biopolymer-based nanocarriers in pharmaceutical and biomedical research