Nanotechnology Based Advanced Medical Textiles and Biotextiles for Healthcare
Nanotechnology Based Advanced Medical Textiles and Biotextiles for Healthcare

Author: Prashansa Sharma

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032363769

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"This book provides a systematic coverage of research into medical and biotextiles based on nanomaterials as applicable in healthcare. Divided into three sections, it explains manufacturing, properties, types, and recent developments in nanotechnology based medical textiles backed by case studies. It includes wide range of different clinical applications of biotextiles for healthcare including nanotextile scaffolds, nano-based artificial organs, surgical sutures, enzymatic assisted enhanced biotextiles, tissue engineering or drug delivery system via nanofibers and so forth. Features: Provides strong and broad overview of medical applications in the field of nano and biotextiles. Highlights different approaches, recent research, and emerging innovations. Covers designing or developing nanomaterials based antiviral surface disinfectants with self-cleaning property. Reviews different applications of nano based medical textiles such as deodorize or pH control clothing for hygiene maintenance. Includes the real-life applications based descriptive case studies that offers a diverse range of perspectives. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in textile technology and engineering, and medical textiles"--

Nanotechnology Based Advanced Medical Textiles and Biotextiles for Healthcare
Nanotechnology Based Advanced Medical Textiles and Biotextiles for Healthcare

Author: Prashansa Sharma

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-05-27

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1003816894

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This book provides systematic coverage of research into medical and biotextiles based on nanomaterials as applicable in healthcare. Divided into three sections, it explains manufacturing, properties, types, and recent developments in nanotechnology based medical textiles backed by case studies. It includes a wide range of different clinical applications of biotextiles for healthcare including nanotextile scaffolds, nano-based artificial organs, surgical sutures, enzymatic assisted enhanced biotextiles, tissue engineering or drug delivery system via nanofibers, and so forth. Features: Provides strong and broad overview of medical applications in the field of nano and biotextiles. Highlights different approaches, recent research, and emerging innovations. Covers designing or developing nanomaterials based antiviral surface disinfectants with self-cleaning property. Reviews different applications of nano based medical textiles such as deodorizing or pH control clothing for hygiene maintenance. Includes the real-life applications based descriptive case studies that offer a diverse range of perspectives. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in textile technology and engineering, and medical textiles.

High Performance Technical Textiles
High Performance Technical Textiles

Author: Roshan Paul

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1119325056

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An authentic resource for the fundamentals, applied techniques, applications and recent advancements of all the main areas of technical textiles Created to be a comprehensive reference, High Performance Technical Textiles includes the review of a wide range of technical textiles from household to space textiles. The contributors—noted experts in the field from all the continents—offer in-depth coverage on the fibre materials, manufacturing processes and techniques, applications, current developments, sustainability and future trends. The contributors include discussions on synthetic versus natural fibres, various textile manufacturing techniques, textile composites and finishing approaches that are involved in the manufacturing of textiles for a specific high performance application. Whilst the book provides the basic knowledge required for an understanding of technical textiles, it can serve as a springboard for inspiring new inventions in hi-tech fibres and textiles. This important book: Contains a unique approach that offers a comprehensive understanding of the manufacturing and applications of technical textiles Includes a general overview to the fundamentals, current techniques, end use applications as well as the most recent advancements Explores the current standards in the industry and the ongoing research in the field Offers a comprehensive and single source reference on the topic Written for academics, researchers and professionals working in textile and related industries, High Performance Technical Textiles offers a systematic, structured, logical and updated source of information for understanding technical textiles.

Biotextiles as Medical Implants
Biotextiles as Medical Implants

Author: M W King

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 739

ISBN-13: 0857095609

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Textiles play a vital role in the manufacture of various medical devices, including the replacement of diseased, injured or non-functioning organs within the body. Biotextiles as medical implants provides an invaluable single source of information on the main types of textile materials and products used for medical implants. The first part of the book focuses on polymers, fibers and textile technologies, and these chapters discuss the manufacture, sterilization, properties and types of biotextiles used for medical applications, including nanofibers, resorbable polymers and shaped biotextiles. The chapters in part two provide a comprehensive discussion of a range of different clinical applications of biotextiles, including surgical sutures, arterial prostheses, stent grafts, percutaneous heart valves and drug delivery systems.This book provides a concise review of the technologies, properties and types of biotextiles used as medical devices. In addition, it addresses the biological dimension of how to design devices for different clinical applications, providing an invaluable reference for biomedical engineers of medical textiles, quality control and risk assessment specialists, as well as managers of regulatory affairs. The subject matter will also be of interest to professionals within the healthcare system including surgeons, nurses, therapists, sourcing and purchasing agents, researchers and students in different disciplines. - Provides an invaluable single source of information on the main types of textile materials and products used for medical implants - Addresses the technologies used and discusses the manufacture, properties and types of biotextiles - Examines applications of biotextiles as medical implants, including drug delivery systems and stent grafts and percutaneous heart valves

Medical and Healthcare Textiles
Medical and Healthcare Textiles

Author: Subhash C. Anand

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0857090348

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Medical textiles remain one of the most dynamic areas of research in textiles. Medical and healthcare textiles is the fourth in a series of conferences held at the University of Bolton. Like its predecessors, it has attracted papers from some of the leading international centres of expertise in the field. Contributors cover a range of topics including emerging textile-based biomaterials, hygienic textiles, the use of textiles in infection control and as barrier materials, bandaging and pressure garments for managing chronic infections such as ulcers, the role of textiles in the management of burns and wounds, textile-based implantable devices such as tissue scaffolds and sutures, and intelligent textiles. - Provides a comprehensive overview of medical textiles from the risk of infection control and barrier materials through to directives, regulations and standards shaping the medical device industry - Explores developments in healthcare and hygiene products, including odor and pH control as well as protective and disposable fabrics - Reviews development in the area of implantable materials featuring vascular grafts, knee implants and scaffolds

Smart Textiles from Natural Resources
Smart Textiles from Natural Resources

Author: Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2024-04-18

Total Pages: 927

ISBN-13: 0443154724

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Smart Textiles from Natural Resources is an interdisciplinary guide to best practice and emerging challenges in the use of natural textiles in smart applications. The movement towards smart textiles has attracted researchers from many fields creating multidisciplinary research frontiers with nanoscience, smart materials and structures, microelectronics, and wireless communication. This ground-breaking book provides technical advice and foundational support to researchers from all of these backgrounds seeking to include sustainability in their solutions.Each chapter in this book is written, reviewed and edited to cover the principles of manufacture, process techniques and mechanisms, and the state-of-the-art construction specifications, properties, test methods and standards of the major product areas and applications of this field. - Covers a wide variety of novel applications of smart textiles, including medical, protective, and automotive - Proposed solutions are based on case studies from academic and industrial labs around the world - Explains how to improve the biodegradability, renewability, biocompatibility, and non-toxicity of smart products

Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures
Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures

Author: Sabu Thomas

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing

Published: 2022-09-29

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0323853498

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Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields – including wound closure - particularly in comparison to metals or ceramics. These specialised materials also allow for a diverse array of therapeutic effects. Although there have been advances in improving polymeric materials for surgical sutures, there is little information available regarding improving the therapeutic value of sutures, and advanced technologies used to implement this improvement. Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures provides thorough coverage on suture materials with improved mechanical and therapeutic properties that can improve quality of life; chapter topics include drug-releasing kinetics of sutures, shape memory polymer sutures and future trends.This book is a useful resource for academics and researchers in the materials science and biomedical engineering fields, as well as professionals in biomaterials and biotextiles development and clinicians looking to learn more about suture material properties and suture/body interactions. - Depicts recent advances in both the therapeutic effects of polymer-based sutures, as well as the various manufacturing techniques employed in the production of sutures - Offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering material properties and engineering technologies, as well as an understanding of the biological properties of sutures, such as suture/body interactions - Comprehensive coverage allows both experienced researchers in the area and new entrants (such as clinicians) to learn more about this important topic

Advanced Textiles for Wound Care
Advanced Textiles for Wound Care

Author: S. Rajendran

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-04-30

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1845696301

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An important and growing area of the textile industry is the medical sector. The extent of this growth is due to constant improvements in both textile technology and medical procedures. This collection provides a detailed review of how textiles are incorporated into wound care applications, explaining the importance and suitability of using textiles on different wound types.Part one of the book provides an overview of the use of textiles in particular aspects of wound care, providing details of wound management and the importance of laboratory testing in relation to wound care. Further chapters cover minor wounds, moist wound management and bioactive dressings to promote healing. Given their increasing importance, part two describes how advanced textiles, such as smart temperature controlled textiles and composites, can be used for wound care products. The final chapter gives an interesting insight into the use of fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering.Advanced textiles for wound care is essential reading for any manufacturers, designers, scientists and producers of wound care materials. It is a valuable resource for professionals within the medical sector, as well as those in academia. - Provides a comprehensive introduction to wound care from types of wound and wound healing mechanisms to the importance of testing in relation to wound care - Analyses the application of textiles to wound healing covering minor wounds, burns, ulcers and other deep skin wounds - Reviews the current use of smart textiles for wound care including drug delivery dressings and textile-based scaffolds for tissue engineering as well as future trends

Electrospun Materials and Their Allied Applications
Electrospun Materials and Their Allied Applications

Author: Inamuddin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1119654866

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The aim of this book is to explore the history, fundamentals, manufacturing processes, optimization parameters, and applications of electrospun materials. The book includes various types of electrospun materials such as antimicrobial, smart, bioinspired systems. It focuses on the many application areas for electrospun materials such as energy storage and harvesting, catalysis, biomedical including gene delivery and tissue engineering, separation, adsorption and water treatment technologies, packaging. The book emphasizes the enhanced sustainable properties of electrospun materials, with the challenges and future developments being discussed in detail. The chapters are written by top-class researchers and experts from throughout the world.