Handbook of Biofunctional Surfaces

It is still the very beginning of generating a better understanding of what is needed to make an organism tolerate implants, to guarantee the bidirectional communication between microelectronic devices and living tissue or to simply construct an interactive biocompatibility of surfaces in general. This book describes the design, synthesis, assembly and characterization, and the bio-(medical) application of interfacial layers on solid substrates with molecularly or supra-molecularly controlled architectures. Experts in the field describe their contributions that have been developed in recent years.

The design and synthesis of molecularly or supramolecularly defined interfacial architectures have seen in recent years a remarkable growth of interest and scientific research activities for various reasons. On the one hand, it is generally believed that the construction of an interactive interface between the living world of cells, tissue, or whole organisms and the (inorganic or organic) materials world of technical devices such as implants or medical parts requires proper construction and structural (and functional) control of this organism–machine interface. It is still the very beginning of generating a better understanding of what is needed to make an organism tolerate implants, to guarantee bidirectional communication between microelectronic devices and living tissue, or to simply construct interactive biocompatibility of surfaces in general.

This exhaustive book lucidly describes the design, synthesis, assembly and characterization, and bio-(medical) applications of interfacial layers on solid substrates with molecularly or supramolecularly controlled architectures. Experts in the field share their contributions that have been developed in recent years.