Nanomaterials : science and applications

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Design and Testing of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Applications -- 1.1 Overview of Nanoparticles in Medicine -- 1.1.1 Nanoparticles in Modern Medicine -- 1.1.2 Nanoparticle and Cell Interactions -- 1.1.3 Multi...
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Design and Testing of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Applications -- 1.1 Overview of Nanoparticles in Medicine -- 1.1.1 Nanoparticles in Modern Medicine -- 1.1.2 Nanoparticle and Cell Interactions -- 1.1.3 Multifunctional Nanoparticles -- 1.1.4 Assessing Nanoparticle Toxicity -- 1.2 Multifunctional Poly (Glycidyl Methacrylate) Nanoparticles and Their Application in Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injuries -- 1.2.1 Rationale and Design of PGMA Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Delivery -- 1.2.2 Current Treatment of Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injuries -- 1.2.3 PGMA Nanoparticle Characterization and Surface Peptide Loading -- 1.2.4 A Comparison of Cellular Uptake and Biodistribution -- 1.2.5 Nanoparticle and TAT-Mediated Delivery of the AID Peptide Reduces Damage Following Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury -- 1.2.6 Conclusions and Future Work -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Yolk-Shell-Structured Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Surface Functionalization, and Their Applications in Nanomedicine -- 2.1 Controllable Synthesis of Yolk-Shell-Structured Nanoparticles -- 2.1.1 The Hard-Template Method -- 2.1.2 The Soft-Template Assembly Method -- 2.2 Approaches to Composition Control -- 2.2.1 Yolk-Shell-Structured Nanoparticles with an Inorganic Material Shell -- 2.2.2 Yolk-Shell-Structured Nanoparticles with a Polymer Shell -- 2.3 Control of Surface Properties in Silica-Based YSNs -- 2.3.1 Modification of Silica-Based Nanoparticle Surface by Living Radical Polymerization Techniques -- 2.3.2 Silica Surface Modification via Silane Chemistry -- 2.4 YSNs for Biomedicine Applications -- 2.4.1 YSNs for Chemotherepy -- 2.4.2 YSNs for Gene/Protein Delivery -- 2.4.3 YSNs for Photothermal Therapy -- 2.4.4 YSNs for Bioimaging. Ausführliche Beschreibung