Significances of Nanostructured Hydrogels for Valuable Applications

Kokkarachedu Varaprasad; Emmanuel Rotimi Sadiku; Koduri Ramam; Jaragula Jayaramudu; G. Siva Mohan Reddy

doi:10.1016/B978-1-4557-3159-6.00008-0

Significances of Nanostructured Hydrogels for Valuable Applications

Kokkarachedu Varaprasad^*, Emmanuel Rotimi Sadiku, Koduri Ramam, Jaragula Jayaramudu, G. Siva Mohan Reddy

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Abstract

Nanostructured hydrogels represent a unique class of materials that synergizes the advantageous features of hydrogels. Research into nanostructured hydrogels for biomedical applications has seen great progress in recent years owing to their unlimited potential to advance human health. The development of nanotechnology provides opportunities to characterize, manipulate, and organize matter systematically at the nanometer scale. This is because nanostructured systems in general and nanostructured polymer hydrogels in particular have noble advantages as transporters for a wide range of drugs and tissue engineering scaffolds for biomedical (therapeutic) applications. This chapter explains the design and development of different nanostructured hydrogels and their applications in the biomedical field.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nanostructured Polymer Blends
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	273-298
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Print)	9781455731596
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4557-3159-6.00008-0
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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The author KVP is extremely thankful to Prof. Dr. Rotimi Sadiku of Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Polymer Technology, South Africa, for his valuable scientific discussions in several areas and proofread of this chapter. FONDECYT and CONICYT, Chile is greatly acknowledged for their financial support with the Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project No. 3130748 (KVP) and Fondecyt Regular Project No. 1110583 (KR).

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