Semiconducting Silicon Nanowires for Biomedical Applications

Jeffery L. Coffer

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780323851312
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Scienze biologiche
• Subtopic: Biotecnologia

In its second, extensively revised second edition, Semiconducting Silicon Nanowires for Biomedical Applications reviews the fabrication, properties, and biomedical applications of this key material. The book begins by reviewing the basics of growth, characterization, biocompatibility, and surface modification of semiconducting silicon nanowires. Attention then turns to use of these structures for tissue engineering and delivery applications, followed by detection and sensing. Reflecting the evolution of this multidisciplinary subject, several new key topics are highlighted, including our understanding of the cell-nanowire interface, latest advances in associated morphologies (including silicon nanoneedles and nanotubes for therapeutic delivery), and significantly, the status of silicon nanowire commercialization in biotechnology. Semiconducting Silicon Nanowires for Biomedical Applications is a comprehensive resource for biomaterials scientists who are focused on biosensors, drug delivery, and the next generation of nano-biotech platforms that require a detailed understanding of the cell-nanowire interface, along with researchers and developers in industry and academia who are concerned with nanoscale biomaterials, in particular electronically-responsive structures.

• Reviews the growth, characterization, biocompatibility, and surface modification of semiconducting silicon nanowires
• Describes silicon nanowires for tissue engineering and delivery applications, including cellular binding & internalization, tissue engineering scaffolds, mediated differentiation of stem cells, and silicon nanoneedles & nanotubes for delivery of small molecule / biologic-based therapeutics
• Highlights the use of silicon nanowires for detection and sensing
• Presents a detailed description of our current understanding of the cell-nanowire interface
• Covers the current status of commercial development of silicon nanowire-based platforms

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• About the Editor
• Foreword
• CHAPTER ONE An overview of semiconducting silicon nanowires for biomedical applications
• CHAPTER TWO Growth and Characterization of Silicon Nanowires for Biomedical Applications
• CHAPTER THREE Surface Modification of Silicon Nanowires for Biosensing
• CHAPTER FOUR Biocompatibility of Semiconducting Silicon Nanowires
• CHAPTER FIVE Functional Silicon Nanowires for Cellular Binding and Internalization
• CHAPTER SIX Functional Semiconducting Silicon Nanowires and their Composites as Tissue Scaffolds
• CHAPTER SEVEN Mediated Differentiation of Stem Cells by Engineered Silicon Nanowires
• CHAPTER EIGHT Nanoneedle Devices for Biomedicine
• CHAPTER NINE Therapeutic Platforms Based on Silicon Nanotubes
• CHAPTER TEN Cellular Nanotechnologies: Orchestrating Cellular Processes by Engineering Silicon Nanowires Architectures
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Nanowire Array Fabrication for High Throughput Screening in the Biosciences
• CHAPTER TWELVE Nanostructured Silicon for Biological Modulation
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN CMOS-Compatible Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors: Where Nanotechnology Pushes the Limits in Biosensing
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Semiconducting Silicon Nanowires and Nanowire Composites for Biosensing and Therapy
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Competition: Non-Silicon Nanowire/Nanotube Strategies in Nanomedicine
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Commercialization of Silicon Nanowire-Based Biotechnologies
• Index