GELS HANDBOOK: FUNDAMENTALS, PROPERTIES, APPLICATIONS. 3 VOLUMES SET

Volume 1: Fundamentals of Hydrogels
• Natural Hydrogels
• Types and Chemistry of Synthetic Hydrogels
• Computational Nanomechanics of Hydrogels
• Mechanical Properties of Hydrogels
• Hydrogel Architecture
• Controlling Hydrogel Biodegradability
• Tailoring Hydrogel Adhesiveness to Cells, Proteins, and Bacteria
• Photo-Cross-Linking Methods to Design Hydrogels
• Self-Assembling Hydrogels
• Environment Responsive Hydrogels

Volume 2: Applications of Hydrogels in Regenerative Medicine
• Hydrogels in Regenerative Medicine
• Determining Stem Cell Fate with Hydrogels
• Applications of Hydrogels in 3D Functional Tissue Models g
• Engineering Regenerative Dextran Hydrogels for Acute Skin Wound Healing
• Application of Hydrogels in Ocular Tissue Engineering
• Hydrogels in Bone Tissue Engineering: A Multi-Parametric Approach
• Hydrogels in Intervertebral Disk (IVD) Repair
• Hydrogels in Cartilage Tissue Engineering
• Application of Hydrogels for Tendon and Ligament Repair and Tissue Engineering
• Hydrogels in Bone Tissue Engineering
• Hydrogels in Cardiac Tissue Engienering
• Application of Hydrogels in Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
• Hydrogels in Vascular Tissue Engineering
• Use of Hydrogels in the Engineering of Lung Tissue
• Hydrogels for Hepatic Tissue Engineering
• Agarose Hydrogel Beads for Treating Diabetes
• Hydrogels in Urogenital Applications

Volume 3: Application of Hydrogels in Drug Delivery and Biosensing
• Modeling Drug Release from Synthetic Hydrogels
• Natural Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogels for Controlled Localized Drug Delivery
• Crosslinked Hydrogels for Drug Delivery
• Supramolecular Hydrogels for Drug Delivery
• BioHybrid Hydrogels as Environment-Sensitive Materials for Systematic Delivery of Therapeutics
• Application of PEG in Drug Delivery System
• Hydrogels as Actuators for Biological Applications
• Advances in Smart Hydrogels for Biosensing Applications
• 3D Cancer Models on Hydrogels
• Hydrogel-Mediated Patterning of Cellular and Biomolecular Microarrays for Screening Assays and Biosensing
• Protein-Immobilized Hydrogel Microstructures for Optical Biosensing
• Cell-Encapsulating Hydrogels for Biosensing

Hydrogels are made from a three-dimensional network of cross linked hydrophilic polymers or colloidal particles that contain a large fraction of water. In recent years, hydrogels have attracted significant attention for a variety of applications in biology and medicine. This has resulted in significant advances in the design and engineering of hydrogels to meet the needs of these applications. This handbook explores significant development of hydrogels from characterization and applications. Volume 1 covers state-of-art knowledge and techniques of fundamental aspects of hydrogel physics and chemistry with an eye on bioengineering applications. Volume 2 explores the use of hydrogels in the interdisciplinary field of tissue engineering. Lastly volume 3 focuses on two important aspects of hydrogels, that is, drug delivery and biosensing. Contains 50 colour pages.

Volume 1: Fundamentals of Hydrogels
Volume 2: Applications of Hydrogels in Regenerative Medicine
Volume 3: Application of Hydrogels in Drug Delivery and Biosensing

Authors
• Dr. Utkan Demirci is an Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA. In his laboratory, he leads a productive group of ~30 researchers focusing on micro/nanoscale technologies to understand, diagnose, monitor, and treat disease conditions. Dr. Demirci has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers in journals. Before Stanford, he served as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Health Sciences and Technology (HST) division. He received his bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and both his master's degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and in Management Science and Engineering in 2005, and his doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 2005 from Stanford University. Dr. Demirci has received various awards including the IEEE EMBS Early Career Award; IEEE EMBS Translational Science Award; NSF CAREER Award; Coulter Foundation Early Career Award; HMS-Young Investigator Award; and Chinese National Science Foundation International Young Scientist Award. In 2006, he was selected to TR-35 as one of the world's top 35 young innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review.
• Dr. Ali Khademhosseini is a Full Professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He is also a Junior Principal Investigator at Japan's World Premier International — Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) at Tohoku University where he directs a satellite laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from MIT (2005), and MASc (2001) and BASc (1999) degrees from University of Toronto both in chemical engineering. Dr. Khademhosseini's interdisciplinary research has been recognized by over 30 major national and international awards. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the US government for early career investigators. In 2011, he received the Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry for his contribution to microscale tissue engineering and microfluidics. In addition, he has received the young investigator awards of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB), the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).