Colloids for Nanobiotechnology

Colloids for Nanobiotechnology: Synthesis, Characterization and Potential Applications, Volume 17, offers a range of perspectives on emerging nano-inspired colloidal applications. With an emphasis on biomedical and environmental opportunities and challenges, the book outlines how nanotechnology is being used to increase the uses and impact of colloid science. Nanotechnology offers new horizons for colloidal research and synthesis routes that allow for the production of highly reproducible and defined materials. This book presents new characterization methods and a fundamental understanding of basic physicochemical, physical and chemical properties.

• Explores the use of nanotechnology in enhancing colloidal characterization techniques
• Explains how colloids are being used in a range of nanomedical applications
• Demonstrates how nanotechnology is being used to create more efficient colloidal synthesis techniques
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  Wolfgang J. Parak is Professor at the Department of Physics and Chemistry at Hamburg University, Germany. He is an advisory board member of the Elsevier journal, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.
  Neus Feliu is a Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Chemistry at Hamburg University, Germany, and the Department of Laboratory Medicine (LABMED), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Her research is focused on engineered nanomaterials for biomedical applications.