Tissue engineering related biomaterials

Author: Yao Kangde
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book is suitable for university teachers and students majoring in biomaterial synthesis, medical repair, and related fields, as well as researchers and developers in medical institutions, research organizations, and enterprises. Tissue engineering is an emerging discipline that intersects and integrates engineering sciences (materials science, biomechanics, biotechnology, and engineering) with life sciences, and its development gives rise to the high-tech industry of tissue engineering. Tissue engineering utilizes engineering principles and methods to fabricate structures for repairing, reconstructing, and replacing damaged tissues and organs, as well as enhancing their functions. The development of tissue engineering relies on the bionics and intelligence of biomaterials. Tissue engineering requires biomaterials to possess tissue compatibility, biodegradability, mechanical properties, and matching with the target tissue. It has gone through stages of using commercial industrial materials, biomedical materials, and biomaterials specific to tissue engineering. This book is a systematic monograph on tissue engineering-related biomaterials, presenting a comprehensive and systematic introduction to tissue engineering-related biomaterials and their related technologies from a broad perspective of interdisciplinary integration. Tissue engineering treats tissues as composite materials consisting of cells and their secreted extracellular matrix, and the performance of tissue engineering materials depends on the interaction between cells and biomaterials. This book elaborates on relevant biological and engineering issues from aspects such as tissue-cell composite materials, structural tissue engineering-related biomaterials, metabolic tissue engineering-related bioactive substance controlled-release technology, surface engineering of biomaterials, and scaffold design and preparation technology. It provides historical development, current status, and future prospects, hoping to contribute to the advancement of the discipline of tissue engineering and the research and development of related products.