Nanostructurcd materials with designed biofunctions have broughtabout rapid and signiticant changes in materials science.XamstrHcttrcd Biomatcrials provides up-to-date reviews of different methods for synthesizing new types of such materials and discusses their cutting edge technological applications. The reviews mainly t-ocus on potential applications of nanostructured materials in biology and the medical sciences. The book is of general interest to a broad audience of graduate students and researchers active in chemistry，materials science，engineering，biology，and physics.

1 Silica-based Nanostructured Porous Biomaterials

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 Silica Porous Materials in Drug Release Systems

1.2.1 Conventional Delivery Systems

1.2.2 Silica Porous Materials for Release Systems

1.2.3 Various Mesoporous Silica in Drug Delivery Systems

1.2.4 Stimuli-responsive Mesoporous Silica for Delivery Systems

 1.3 Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles

1.3.1 MSNs for Biological Applications

1.3.2 Non-functionalized MSNs in Drug Release Systems

1.3.3 Inorganic Nanocrystals Capped MSNs

1.3.4 The “Nanocalves” on the Surface of MSNs

1.3.5 MSNs as Biomarkers

 1.4 Polymer Coated MSNs

1.4.1 Polymer Coated MSNs through PJaysical Adsorption

1.4.2 Polymer Coated MSNs through Covalent Binding

 1.5 Summary

 References

2 Nanostructured Functional Inorganic Materials Templated by

 Natural Substances

 2.1 Introduction

 2.2 Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

2.2.1 Silica Nanomaterials

2.2.2 Titania Nanomaterials.

2.2.3 Tin Oxide Nanomaterials

2.2.4 Alumina Nanomaterials

2.2.5 Zirconia Nanomaterials

2.2.6 Zinc Oxide Nanomaterials

2.2.7 Other Examples

 2.3 Metallic Materials

2.3.1 Nanostructured Gold

2.3.2 Nanostructured Silver

2.3.3 Nanostructured Platinum

2.3.4 Nanostructured Nickel

2.3.5 Nanostructured Copper

2.3.6 Nanostructured Metallic Arrays

2.3.7 Complex Metallic Materials

2.3.8 Other Examples

 2.4 Quantum Dots

 2.5 Silica Carbide Materials

 2.6 Materials Fabricated by Organic Coating

 2.7 Other Natural Substance-derived Materials

 2.8 Summary

 References

3 Inorganic-organic Hybrid Materials Based on Nano-polyoxometalates and Surfactants

 3.1 Introduction to Developed POMs

3.1.1 Structures of POMs

3.1.2 Properties of POMs

3.1.3 Applications of POMs

 3.2 Inorganic-organic Hybrids of Polyoxometalates and Surfactants/Polyelectrolytes

3.2.1 Phase Behavior of Mixtures of POMs and Surfactants

3.2.2 Multilayer Films Containing POMs by Layer-by-layer Technique on Planar Substrates

3.2.3 Multilayer Films Containing POMs by Layer-by-layer Technique into Spherical Nanocapsules

3.2.4 Monolayer/Multilayer Films Incorporating POMs by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) Technique

3.2.5 Three-dimensional Aggregates of POM-surfactant Hybrids

 3.3 Self-assembled Honeycomb Films of Hydrophobic Surfactant-encapsulated Clusters (HSECs) at Air/Water Interface

3.3.1 Introduction to Honeycomb Films

3.3.2 Fabricating Honeycomb Films of HSECs at Air/Water Interface

3.3.3 Mechanism of Self-assembly of HSECs into Honeycomb Films

3.3.4 Morphology Modulation of Honeycomb Films of HSECs

 3.4 Conclusions

 References

4 Natural Cellulosic Substance Derived Nanostructured Materials

 4.1 Introduction

 4.2 Natural Cellulosic Substances

 4.3 Cellulose Derived Nanomaterials

4.3.1 Titania Nanotubular Materials

4.3.2 Zirconia Nanotubular Materials

4.3.3 Tin Oxide Nanotubular Materials

4.3.4 Indium Tin Oxide Nanotubular Materials

4.3.5 Hybrid of Titania Nanotube and Gold Nanoparticle

4.3.6 Hierarchical Polypyrrole Nanocomposites

4.3.7 Protein Immobilization on Cellulose Nanofibers

4.3.8 Natural Cellulose Substance Derived Hierarchical Polymeric Materials

4.3.9 Metal-coated Cellulose Fibers

4.3.10 Hierarchical Titanium Carbide from Titania-coated Cellulose Paper

 4.4 Summary

 References

5 Nanoporous Template Synthesized Nanotubes for Bio-related Applications

 5.1 Introduction

 5.2 Porous Templates

 5.3 Preparation of Composite Nanotubes in Porous Template

5.3.1 LbL-assembled Polymeric Nanotubes

5.3.2 Nanotubes Bases on Sol-gel Chemistry

5.3.3 Nanotubes Synthesized by Polymerization

 5.4 Functional Composite Nanotubes towards Biological Applications

5.4.1 Biofunctional and Biodegradable Nanotubes

5.4.2 Nanotubes for Biosensors and Bioseparation

5.4.3 Nanotubes for Drug and Gene Delivery

 5.5 Summary

 References

Index