Features

• Explores and presents innovative nanotechnological and biomimetically derived strategies in the design of potential nanomedical devices and their constituents
• Contains Proposed Research Tasking List’s to facilitate the further investigation and potential development of specific nanomedical capacities
• Includes eight chapters contributed by some of the leading researchers in nanotechnology, nanomaterials and nanomedicine.
• Provides 68 color illustrations created by the author, among more than ~240 Figures and 27 Tables.
• Investigates nanomedical diagnostic and therapeutic strategies that might be applied in remote regions and the developing world
• Discusses how nanomedicine might be utilized in space applications, inclusive of spacesuits, spacecraft, future human habitats on the Moon and Mars and deep space
• Covers how nanomedicine may be implemented in selected forms of human augmentation and toward the potentially radical extension of the human life span

Summary

This unique book addresses issues pertaining to nanomedical devices and systems design in terms of challenges, possibilities, and future vision. It examines what it takes to design, fabricate, and functionalize autonomous micron-scale, robotic medical devices (having nanometric-scale components) and what perceived hurdles must be overcome to foster their development and implementation. The book investigates device deployment and recovery strategies, as well as protocols for their safe and failsafe operation and their efficacy when applied to an array of human maladies.