Polymers for biomedicine : synthesis, characterization, and applications

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"This book highlights dynamic developments in polymer synthesis, focusing on synthetic techniques that yield new biomedically relevant polymers, macromolecular super-structures, and biopolymers for surface modification. An added emphasis deals with characterizing these polymers through structure verification"--. Abstract: Highlighting dynamic developments in polymer synthesis, this book focuses on the chemical techniques to synthesize and characterize biomedically relevant polymers and shows their application in biomedicine. An added emphasis deals with characterizing these polymers through structure verification. Read more... Content: List of Contributors ix Part I. Pseudo-Peptides, Polyamino acids and Polyoxazolines 1 Chapter 1 - Characterization of Polypeptides and Polypeptoides- Methods and Challenges 3David Huesmann and Matthias Barz Chapter 2- Poly(2-Oxazoline): The structurally Diverse Biocompatibilizing Polymer 31Rodolphe Obeid Chapter 3- Poly(2-oxazoline) Polymers synthesis, characterization and Applications in Development of Therapeutics 51Randall W. Moreadith and Tacey X. Viegas Chapter 4- Polypeptoid Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties 77Brandon A. Chan, Sunting Xuan, Ang Li, Jessica M. Simpson and Donghui Zhang Part II - Advanced Polycondensates 121 Chapter 5 - Polyanhydrides: Synthesis and Characterization 123Rohan Ghadi, Eameema Muntimadugu Wahid Khan and Abraham J. Domb Chapter 6 - New Routes to Tailor-Made Polyesters 149Kazuki Fukushima and Tomoko Fujiwara Chapter 7 - Polyphosphoesters: An old biopolymer in a new light 191Kristin N. Bauer, Hisaschi T.C. Tee, Evandro M. Alexandrino and Frederik R. Wurm Part III. Cationically Charged Macromolecules 243 Chapter 8 - Design and Synthesis of Amphiphilic Vinyl Copolymers with Antimicrobial Activity 245Leanna L. Foster, Masato Mizutani, Yukari Oda, Edmund F. Palermo and Kenichi Kuroda Chapter 9 - Enhanced Polyethylenimine-Based Delivery of Nucleic Acids 273Jeff Sparks, Tooba Anwer and Khursheed Anwer Chapter 10 - Cationic graft copolymers for DNA engineering 297Atsushi Maruyama and Naohiko Shimada Part IV. Biorelated polymers by Controlled Radical Polymerization 313 Chapter 11 - Synthesis of (Bio)degradable Polymers by Controlled/ Living Radical Polymerization 315Shannon R. Woodruff and Nicolay V. Tsarevsky Part V. Polydrugs and Polyprodrugs 355 Chapter 12 - Polymerized drugs a novel approach to controlled release systems 357B. Demirdirek, J. J. Faig, R. Guliyev and K.E.Uhrich Chapter 13 - Structural design and synthesis of polymer prodrugs 391Petr Chytil, Libor Kostka and Toma Etrych Part VI. Biocompatibilization of Surfaces 421 Chapter 14 - Polymeric ultrathin films for surface modifications 423Henning Menzel Chapter 15 - Surface Functionalization of Biomaterials by Poly(2-oxazoline)s 457Giulia Morgese and Edmondo M. Benetti Chapter 16 - Biorelated polymer brushes by surface initiated reversible deactivation radical polymerization 487Rueben Pfukwa, Lebohang Hlalele and Bert Klumperman Part VII. Self-assembled Structures and Formulations 525 Chapter 17 - Synthesis of amphiphilic invertible polymers for biomedical applications 527A.M. Kohut, I.O. Hevus, S.A. Voronov and A.S. Voronov Chapter 18 - Bioadhesive Polymers for Drug Delivery 559Eenko Larraneta and Ryan F. Donnelly INDEX