Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures Paperback / softback

Edited by Sabu (Full Professor, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotech Thomas, Phil (Professor of Polymer Engineering, Director, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Polym Coates, Ben (University of Bradford, UK) Whiteside, Blessy (Postdoctoral scholar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) Joseph, Karthik (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical and Energy Systems Engineering, Fa Nair

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Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields – including wound closure - particularly in comparison to metals or ceramics.

These specialised materials also allow for a diverse array of therapeutic effects.

Although there have been advances in improving polymeric materials for surgical sutures, there is little information available regarding improving the therapeutic value of sutures, and advanced technologies used to implement this improvement.

Advanced Technologies and Polymer Materials for Surgical Sutures provides thorough coverage on suture materials with improved mechanical and therapeutic properties that can improve quality of life; chapter topics include drug-releasing kinetics of sutures, shape memory polymer sutures and future trends. This book is a useful resource for academics and researchers in the materials science and biomedical engineering fields, as well as professionals in biomaterials and biotextiles development and clinicians looking to learn more about suture material properties and suture/body interactions.