Biomedical Materials for Multi-functional Applications – serie

At the convergence of biomechanics, tribology, and safety engineering, this book ‘Friction and Wear in Footwear’ explores how friction and wear jointly govern footwear performance, safety, and durability. Addressing slips and falls, one of the leading causes of injuries worldwide, this book highlights wear as a critical, time-dependent factor that alters frictional behavior and increases slip risk over a footwear’s lifecycle. The book examines outsole degradation, tread pattern evolution, and material fatigue, focusing on how wear progressively reduces traction. It integrates experimental and computational approaches, including studies on worn footwear, coefficient of friction measurements, biofidelic and robotic slip testing devices, and advanced simulation frameworks. These insights are applied to healthcare, occupational safety, and performance footwear design, emphasizing the need for wear-based evaluation and innovation. This book covers slips and falls, gait biomechanics, advanced slip testing technologies, outsole tread modifications, and frameworks for assessing worn footwear friction. It concludes with emerging trends focused on designing for wear resilience and long-term safety.This book is essential for footwear designers, engineers, ergonomists, and researchers aiming to develop safer, durable, and performance-optimized footwear solutions.

Handbook of Artificial Tissues Volume I offers a comprehensive entry into the rapidly advancing field of artificial tissue development. Bridging fundamental biomedical engineering principles with emerging technologies, the book addresses growing needs in regenerative medicine, surgical simulation, and soft tissue replacement.It provides a structured overview of materials, methods, and multidisciplinary design principles underlying artificial tissues. Key topics covered here include soft tissue biomechanics, biomaterials, hydrogels, polymers, biocomposites, nanotechnology, and 3D printing. This volume focuses on biofabrication techniques, multi-material modelling, and mechanical as well as biocompatibility evaluation. The book highlights real-world applications in surgical training, biomechanical testing, and medical device development, while also exploring advanced areas such as sensor-integrated systems and biohybrid tissue design. The book progresses from fundamental concepts such as tissue structure and imaging to material-specific approaches and advanced fabrication technologies, providing both theoretical grounding and practical insight.This book is ideal for graduate students, early-career researchers, and professionals in biomedical engineering, biomaterials, and healthcare, offering a strong foundation for those working in tissue engineering, medical simulation, and next-generation biomimetic technologies.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, structured, and application-oriented understanding of dental materials as a cornerstone of modern dentistry and biomedical sciences. It integrates fundamental material science with clinical performance, safety, and regulatory considerations, enabling readers to understand how dental materials influence functional rehabilitation, aesthetics, durability, and patient outcomes.The book covers a wide spectrum of materials, including metals and alloys, amalgam, noble metals, polymers, impression materials, waxes, gypsum products, cements, ceramics, and implant materials, along with emerging biodegradable and nanotechnology-based systems. It highlights key aspects such as composition, structure, properties, manipulation techniques, and clinical applications, with strong emphasis on biocompatibility, corrosion behavior, surface modification, biomedical waste management, and long-term performance. Advanced topics such as additive manufacturing, biomimetics, nanomaterials, and future trends are also addressed, supporting both academic and translational applications. The book progresses from historical foundations and regulatory frameworks to material-specific science and clinical applications, ensuring a logical and cohesive learning experience.This handbook is ideal for researchers, biomedical engineers, dental professionals, medical practitioners, and undergraduate and postgraduate students, serving as a reliable resource for education, research, and advanced clinical practice in dental materials.

Additionally, this book explores the antibacterial properties of nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets and their relevance to biosensing environments, providing a holistic understanding of biomimetic sensor technologies.

This book explores the use of biodegradable metals for biological applications in the developing field of Biomaterials research. Iron, Magnesium and zinc are the most common biodegradable metals that have been discussed here. With an excellent mechanical integrity, adequate biocompatibility, and intrinsic biodegradability, these metals are suitable for implants, and have led to multiple studies on the creation of new alloys for degradable biological applications. The book begins with an introductory chapters to introduce the basics of metals and has three main sections. The first section provides readers with an overview of iron-based metallic biomaterials, unveils the current state of biodegradable metal technology, and discusses its potential applications for bio-implants. The second section discusses a paradigm shift from iron to magnesium-based metallic biomaterials, from material discovery and testing to implant production. This section provides an example of biodegradable metals from idea to application. Biomaterials based on magnesium have the potential to be utilized as next-generation biodegradable metals. Since magnesium (Mg) dissolves in bodily fluids, implanted Mg may deteriorate during the healing process; provided, however, that degradation is regulated, no debris will remain once healing is completed. Therefore, there may be no need for a second surgical procedure (or procedures) to remove the implant. This section demonstrates a thorough analysis that gathers, evaluates, and critically examines the most recent research on the crucial facets of magnesium-based biomaterials. This book is expected to be a fundamental resource for research in biodegradable metallic materials, fabrication of implants, tissue engineering, and biomedical engineering. A viewpoint on the application of biodegradable metals for biomedical purposes in the tissue engineering age closes the book.

This book explores the rapidly advancing intersection of biomaterials science and clinical diagnostics and therapeutics, collectively known as Theranostics. It focuses on the design, development, and translational application of extracellular matrix (ECM)–mimicking biomaterials as next-generation platforms for improving diagnostic accuracy, therapeutic delivery, and treatment predictability—particularly in cancer, tissue regeneration, and personalized medicine.At its core, the book examines how biomimetic ECM systems replicate the structural, biochemical, and mechanical cues of native tissues, enabling more physiologically relevant in vitro and in vivo environments. By emulating the dynamic and hierarchical architecture of the ECM, these materials demonstrate significant potential in enhancing drug delivery, predicting therapeutic efficacy, and facilitating tissue repair and regeneration.The book provides in-depth coverage of advanced fabrication strategies, including 3D bioprinting, molecular self-assembly, and decellularization-based approaches, for creating functional ECM analogs. Each chapter presents case studies, experimental findings, and applied methodologies, illustrating how ECM biomimicry is being integrated into theranostic systems across diverse biomedical applications. A distinguishing feature of this volume is its incorporation of high-quality illustrations, 3D renderings, and comprehensive tables, which visually elucidate complex mechanisms, material architectures, and data interpretation. This book offers a holistic framework for leveraging ECM biomimicking in Theranostics by bridging fundamental biomaterials research with applied clinical translation. It serves as a valuable resource for biomaterials scientists, bioengineers, clinicians, and translational researchers seeking to stay at the forefront of regenerative medicine, cancer therapy, and diagnostic innovation.

Soft tissue simulants, essential for automotive and ballistic testing, medical, and surgical training, have traditionally relied on cadavers and animal tissues.

Soft tissue simulants, essential for automotive and ballistic testing, medical, and surgical training, have traditionally relied on cadavers and animal tissues.

This book discusses the different skin grafting methods, latest trends in graft designing, and its relationship with the burn injuries. Current innovative skin graft patterns which cover higher area compared to traditional skin graft patterns are anticipated to help in surgery and faster recovery of larger burnt areas.

This book discusses the different skin grafting methods, latest trends in graft designing, and its relationship with the burn injuries. An introduction to several conventional and modern skin grafting methods and how crucial the innovation is for recovery of large burns will be presented. The technologies involved in the development of skin grafts incisions, and study of their effect on the mechanical properties and systematically modified skin graft patterns, will be covered at length. The development of skin grafts using conventional, auxetic, and hierarchical patterns through computational and experimental frameworks will be discussed in detail. Also, the role of skin graft patterns on the mechanical stresses, expansion ratio or meshing ratio, will be presented. Additionally, the role of degree of burn, size of burn, and region of burn will be discussed, and its generalizability will be covered in detail. Finally, the challenges with the existing skin graft meshers and latest development in this niche area will be highlighted. This book is anticipated to serve as a key reference for medical and research professionals working in the skin grafting domain as well as the product manufacturing industries. For example, skin grafting plays an important role to cure the serious burn injuries. Current innovative skin graft patterns which cover higher area compared to traditional skin graft patterns are anticipated to help in surgery and faster recovery of larger burnt areas. Also, the current skin graft mesher, which is used to develop traditional skin grafts, cannot produce claimed expansions clinically. This book helps design novel mesher devices to reduce the difference between actual and claimed expansions clinically and increase the skin graft coverage area to recover burn sites with lesser available skin. This book is equally useful for students of medical practices, manufacturing engineering, and design engineering.

"Handbook on Biomaterials for Medical Applications: Fundamentals" is a critical monograph that merges advanced technological insights with practical applications in biomedical materials science.

The subject focuses on the 3D printing applications in rehabilitation industry. This book will help readers in developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills for engineering applications in healthcare, as 3D printing provides unique-customized solutions.

This book can serve as a fundamental textbook for research in additive manufacturing, fabrication of implants or scaffolds and medical device development, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biomedical engineering.

New fabrication techniques and biomaterials have advanced significantly as attention toward healthcare innovations in recent decades has increased. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the application of additive manufacturing for biomedical devices. The book focuses on the use of biomaterial for hard and soft tissue engineering. These materials can imitate the mechanical, structural, and biological characteristics of the parent tissue, repairing or replacing its functioning. It provides details on the use of various biomaterials for different biomedical applications. It highlights the present trends and potential of various techniques and materials for various applications. The chapters in this book written by eminent experts highlight recent developments in additive manufacturing for biological mimicking and surgical planning. It discusses latest advances in various 3D printing technologies in the fabrication of biomedical devices for orthopaedic and cardiovascular applications, along with rising trends in designing and creating tissue replacement substitute simulants. This book can serve as a fundamental textbook for research in additive manufacturing, fabrication of implants or scaffolds and medical device development, biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biomedical engineering. This book can be a valuable resource for mechanical and biomedical engineers, academicians, healthcare researchers, and professionals interested in tissue engineering.

“Handbook on Biomaterials for Medical Applications: Applications " is a comprehensive exploration of the cutting-edge developments in the field of biomedical materials, with a strong focus on their multifunctional applications in therapeutics.

This book provides an insight into the basic fundamentals of the biomaterials used for the biomedical applications, their development and processing techniques.

This book provides an insight into the basic fundamentals of the biomaterials used for the biomedical applications, their development and processing techniques.

This contributed volume presents the latest research on additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing, one of the key techniques of novel medical devices, which can process complicated or customized structures to match the properties of human tissues.

This contributed volume presents the latest research on additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing, one of the key techniques of novel medical devices, which can process complicated or customized structures to match the properties of human tissues.

This book discusses the science of footwear traction and its relationship with slips and falls. The book covers ergonomics involved in the development of tread designs and the study of their effect on traction across footwear and systematically modified shoes.