Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery: Principles and Applications

This book presents an overview of the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology applications in drug delivery systems and covers a variety of technologies and materials that help in achieving vast variation in the particle size needed in technology and drug delivery-based research. It discusses nanotechnology’s use in healthcare for the development of target-specific drug therapy and smart field systems and in the pharmaceutical industry to improve the quality, efficacy, and shelf life of medicines. Bringing together principles, theory, practice, and applications of nanotechnology, the book is a useful resource for chemists, physicists, biomedical researchers, engineers, advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students in nanotechnology, researchers in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, biology, biotechnology engineering, and general readers in nanotechnology.

Rakesh K. Sindhu is professor and head of department at the School of Pharmacy, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. He is involved in research on nanoformulation development and evaluation, standardization of herbal products, phytochemical screening, and pharmacological evaluation of herbal drugs/products. He has filed 25 patents and 6 patents have been granted. Dr Sindhu has published 8 books, 25 book chapters, and more than 100 papers in reputed journals and also presented papers at 15 international and 30 national conferences. He is actively involved in reviewing research papers of well-reputed journals and has served as an editorial board member for national and international journals during 16 years of experience in academics and research.