Smart materials for tissue engineering : fundamental principles Smart Design of Materials for Tissue Engineering; Smart Surfaces Chemistry and Coating Materials for Tissue Engineering; Protein Based Stimuli Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering; Stimuli Responsive Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering; Self Assembled Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering; Natural Materials as Smart Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering; Engineering Stem Cell Niche and Stem Cell Material Interactions; Smart Biomaterials with SMart Surfaces for Stem Cell Culture; Conducting Polymers as Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering; Silica Materials as Smart Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering; Functional Nucleic Acid Incorporated Materials for Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering; Smart Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes for Tissue Engineering; Smart Functional Porous Materials for Tissue Engineering; Smart Nanofibrous materials for Tissue Engineering; Thermosensitive Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering; Photo Mediated Biomaterial Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering; Enzyme Mediated Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering; Magnetic Responsive Materials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; Magnetic Responsive Materials as Smart Scaffolds for Stem Cells; Multifunctional Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering; Fabrication of Multifunctional Materials for Cell Transplantation by Microfluidics This book focusses on the fundamental principles and recent advances in the materials science developed for tissue engineering purposes.