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The future development of biomedical and protective textiles with selective properties that benefit the consumer will be based on applying scientific and clinical advances in wound healing, antimicrobials, and enzyme-based fabrics. This book presents the current research on natural and synthetic fiber-based textiles. Specific topics include designing antimicrobial textiles in an age of resistant microbes, biologically active biodegradable textiles, arterial grafts as biomedical textiles, determining antimicrobial efficacy and biocompatibility of textiles, novel enzyme-based methods for textile fibers, interactions of proteins and peptides on textile surfaces, regenerable antimicrobial textiles, issues in the design of chronic would dressings, the biodeterioration of wool, and advances in the modification of synthetic fibers with biological activity.

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The editors should be given full credit for the logical layout of the book and the lack of any duplication between chapters. The three-hundred pages are coherent, to a large extent due to the fact that sufficient space is given to each of the book's main themes, something that is not the case in typical conference proceedings containing as many as forty chapters. The book contains excellent figures which explain the material-device interface and surgically relevant photos ... --Polymer News<br>

The editors should be given full credit for the logical layout of the book and the lack of any duplication between chapters. The three-hundred pages are coherent, to a large extent due to the fact that sufficient space is given to each of the book's main themes, something that is not the case in typical conference proceedings containing as many as forty chapters. The book contains excellent figures which explain the material-device interface and surgically relevant photos ...--Polymer News

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