Handbook of biodegradable polymers
Subtitle: synthesis, characterization, and applications
By: edited by Andreas Lendlein and Adam Sisson
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Weinheim, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9783527324415; 9783527635832; 9783527635825; 9783527635849; 9783527635818
Subjects: Polymers; Biodegradation; Handbooks, manuals; Synthesis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Polyesters / Adam L. Sisson, Michael Schroeter, Andreas Lendlein; title: Biotechnologically produced biodegradable polyesters / Jaciane Lutz Lenczak and Gl̀áucia Maria Falcão de Aragão; title: Polyanhydrides / Avi Domb, Jay Prakash Jain, Neeraj Kumar; title: Poly(orthoesters) / Jorge Heller; title: Biodegradable polymers composed of naturally occurring a-amino acids / Ramaz Katsarava and Zaza Gomurashvili; title: Biodegradable polyurethanes and poly(ester amide)s / Alfonso Rodríguez-Galán, Lourdes Franco, Jordi Puiggalí; title: Carbohydrates / Gerald Dräger ... [et al.]; title: Biodegradable shape-memory polymers / Marc Behl ... [et al.]; title: Biodegradable elastic hydrogels for tissue expander application / Thanh Huyen Tran ... [et al.]; title: Biodegradable dendrimers and dendritic polymers / Jayant Khandare and Sanjay Kumar; title: Analytical methods for monitoring biodegradation processes of environmentally degradable polymers / Maarten van der Zee; title: Modeling and simulation of microbial depolymerization processes of xenobiotic polymers / Masaji Watanabe, Fusako Kawai; title: Regenerative medicine : reconstruction of tracheal and pharyngeal mucosal defects in head and neck surgery / Dorothee Rickert ... [et al.]; title: Biodegradable polymers as scaffolds for tissue engineering / Yoshito Ikada; title: Drug delivery systems / Kevin M Shakesheff; title: Oxo-biodegradable polymers : present status and future perspectives / Emo Chiellini ... [et al.].