Main description:

This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application. It includes fundamental, applied, and industrial photonics. The authors cover synthesis, the modification and the processing of a variety of (bio)polymers including thermoplasts (e.g. polyesters) and hydrogels (e.g. proteins and polysaccharides) for a plethora of applications in the field of optics and regenerative medicine.

Contents:

Part I: Polymer development and processing

1) Introduction into photonic-enhanced materials (Sandra Van Vlierberghe / Heidi Ottevaere)

2) Development and characterization of photo-responsive polymers (Izabela Stancu / Andreas Lendlein)

3) Polymer processing through two-photon poly

merization (Aleksander Ovsianikov)

4) Nanomanufacturing/nanophotonics in the biomedical field (Shaochen Chen)

Part II: Applications

5) Detection mechanisms in sensing applications (Gunter Gauglitz, Tubingen)

6) Lab-on-chip technology (Anders Kristensen - DTU / Andreas Manz - Saarbrucken)

7) Single cell manipulation (

Martin Wegener)

8) 2PP constructs for tissue engineering purposes (Fergal J. O'Brien)

9) Gene therapy (Stefaan De Smedt / Kevin Braeckmans)

10)

Drug delivery (Ania Karewicz)

11) Organ-on-a-chip (Vera Rogiers / J. Wikswo)