Medical Applications of Colloids

This volume collects chapters dealing with significant topics in colloids and surfaces relevant to medical applications. The book will be of interest to scientists and practitioners in areas as diverse as medical diagnostics, drug formulations, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of biomaterials, and particle transport in human airways. This volume deals with various colloid and surface phenomena related to medical and biomedical uses, especially in diagnostics including topics on the use of colloids in the analysis of blood, and of XPS of biosystems and biomaterials. Furthermore, the effects of uniform particles in drug formulations and release, and in the evaluation of particle transport and deposition in human airway (like in the lung) are treated in this book.