---

Functional Marine Biomaterials: Properties and Applications provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals.

As recent advances and funding has enabled scientists to begin harnessing many of these materials for biomedical applications from drug delivery to bone tissue engineering and biosensors, this important new text provides readers with a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field.

Chapters discuss the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices.

Provides readers with the latest information on the diverse marine environment as a resource for many new substances, including biopolymers, bioceramics, and biominerals
Presents a comprehensive review of these materials and their functional applications in the biomedical field
Discusses the properties of the main classes of functional marine biomaterials, applications of marine products in tissue engineering, applications in drug delivery systems, and the role of marine derived materials in medical devices

---

Part 1 Introduction to marine biomaterials 1. Discovery and development of marine biomaterials Besim Ben-Nissan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 2. Properties of marine biominerals Werner Mueller, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Part 2 Applications of marine products in tissue engineering 3. Bone tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Se-Kwon Kim 4. Cardiovascular tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Roberto Parravicini, University of Modena, Italy 5. Skin tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Sylvia Colliec-Jouault, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Marine Molecules, Ifremer, France 6. Liver Tissue engineering using functional marine biomaterials Chong-Su Cho, Soeul National University

Part 3 Applications of marine products in drug delivery systems and nano-pharmaceuticals 7. Functionalisation of marine materials for drug delivery systems Sevda Senel 8. Drug delivery systems and tissue engineering scaffolding using marine derived products Tiago H. Silva, University of Minho, Portugal 9. Anti-inflammatory drug delivery systems using marine products Chandra P. Sharma, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, India

---

"...concerned with the niche areas of marine biomaterials, their properties and applications.chapters are generally thorough. Citations to the original sources are used extensively to support the text." -- Biotechnology Advances

---