Chapter 11 - Nanostructures for biomedical devices

Abstract

The nanostructures and nanomaterials nowadays have been applied in numerous areas such as electronics, sensors, composite materials, drug delivery, energy conversion, and storage, and field emission devices. Nanobiotechnology plays a central role in disease diagnosis, drug design and delivery, and implants. Both synthetic and natural nanostructures are currently being developed for Biomedical applications. Medical devices are rapidly advancing from traditional hardware-based systems to include, or be biological materials. In many cases, these biomaterials are derived from an individual’s own cells. To recognize the convergence of bioengineering and medical devices the term biomedical device is used. In this article, we highlight biomedical applications of different nanostructures especially the nanostructures are used for biomedical devices.