Overview
"Biopolymers are playing an increasingly pivotal role in medicine and pharmacy with applications in tissue engineering, regeneration medicine, and drug carrier systems. With articles taken directly from the 12 volume ""Biopolymers"" series, this title covers a selection of biopolymers successfully being used for medical and pharmaceutical applications. All classes of biopolymers are covered with each chapter highlighting one particular substance or application and addressing all aspects from structure, properties, biosynthesis and biodegradation, to applications and patents. Structured for easy data comparison, this is an ideal reference for medium sized laboratories and libraries."
Full Product Details
Author: Alexander Steinbuchel ,
Robert H. Marchessault
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Imprint: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Dimensions:
Width: 18.00cm
, Height: 6.80cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 2.454kg
ISBN: 9783527311545
ISBN 10: 3527311548
Pages: 1145
Publication Date: 10 June 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
"""...an ideal handbook to be found in libraries or mid-sized laboratories that are interested or active in this area."" (MRS Bulletin, April 2006) ""This handbook gives an excellent review of the current state of knowledge on such biopolymers in term of their discovery, occurrence, chemical and physical properties, biosynthesis and degradation, molecular genetics, physiological role, fermentative production or isolation, purification, and applications."" (Engineering in Life Sciences) ""...the book is not only an excellent guidebook in technological aspects of biopolymers, but also a supreme teaching and reference book for graduate students and academic and industrial researchers who want to learn about biopolymers from discovery to application."" (ChemMedChem)"
...an ideal handbook to be found in libraries or mid-sized laboratories that are interested or active in this area. (MRS Bulletin, April 2006) This handbook gives an excellent review of the current state of knowledge on such biopolymers in term of their discovery, occurrence, chemical and physical properties, biosynthesis and degradation, molecular genetics, physiological role, fermentative production or isolation, purification, and applications. (Engineering in Life Sciences) ...the book is not only an excellent guidebook in technological aspects of biopolymers, but also a supreme teaching and reference book for graduate students and academic and industrial researchers who want to learn about biopolymers from discovery to application. (ChemMedChem)
Author Information
Since 1994 Alexander Steinbuchas been Full Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Munster. After his PhD in 1983 he spent one year at the Rockefeller University New York and in 1992 he received the Philip Morris Research Award. Alexander Steinb?has over 250 publications to his name and has organized several symposia focusing on biopolymers. Robert Marchessault has spent half of his scientific career in industry, mainly at the Xerox Research Center of Canada where he worked in the field of materials science, and the other half in academia. He is now Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of McGill University in Montreal with a current research interest in biopolymer materials for imaging applications and drug delivery.
