Functional Chitosan

Materials built from chitosan are finding a growing range of uses in medicine, and moving drugs to where they are needed is among the most prominent. Focusing on functional chitosan, this work looks at the roles these materials can play and how they are put to use when new biomaterials are developed from them.

The book lays out the chemical makeup of chitosan and explains how that structure relates to the functions it performs. This material is presented as a theoretical groundwork for reasoning about how biomaterials should be designed.

The closing discussion surveys chitin and chitosan derivatives that have been chemically modified or combined with other substances to form composites. It reviews their use in tissue engineering, nanomedicine, drug delivery and gene delivery.