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Most Requested Journal Articles 1Q04-Chemistry and Related

Following is one of the journal articles most requested by researchers using CAS online services.

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CAS subject entries for this document include: Drug delivery systems; Prosthetic materials and Prosthetics; Polymers, biological studies.

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TITLE:	Advances in biomaterials, drug delivery, and bionanotechnology
AUTHOR(S):	Langer, Robert; Peppas, Nicholas A.
CORPORATE SOURCE:	Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
SOURCE:	AIChE Journal (2003), 49(12), 2990-3006 CODEN: AICEAC; ISSN: 0001-1541
PUBLISHER:	American Institute of Chemical Engineers
LANGUAGE:	English

ABSTRACT:
A review. Biomaterials are widely used in numerous medical applications. Chem. engineering has played a central role in this research and development. Polymers as biomaterials, materials and approaches used in drug and protein delivery systems, materials used as scaffolds in tissue engineering, and nanotechnol. and microfabrication techniques applied to biomaterials are reviewed.

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