Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers

Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based NanocarriersAuthor(s): Rajendra Awasthi, Santosh Kumar Singh, Anurag Kumar Singh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, United States\nImprint: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division\nISBN-13: 9780443248023, 978-0443248023\nSynopsis\nDrug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers delivers an up-to-date and complete overview of the range of biomedical applications for porous silicon nanomaterials, with a special emphasis on drug delivery. This book introduces the fundamentals and beneficial properties of porous silicon, including thermal properties and stabilization, photochemical and nonthermal chemical modification, protein modification, and biocompatibility. The book then builds on the systematic detailing of each biomedical application using porous silicon, such as vaccine development, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. It also contains new insights on in.