Biopolymeric-Inorganic Composites for Drug Delivery Applications

Abstract

The everyday progress in the development of new nanomaterials has grasped the attention of drug deliveryDrug delivery researchers in recent years. The combination of more than one material to form composites in order to gain new interesting properties and enhance the performance of one another has shown a noticeable progress in the synthesis and applications of drug delivery systemsDrug delivery system. For instance, biocompatible and biodegradable materials such as biopolymersBiopolymers and inorganic materials are widely used in this aspect. This chapter focuses on the use of biopolymeric–inorganic compositesBiopolymeric-inorganic composites in the preparation of drug delivery systemsDrug delivery system. The types of biopolymeric and inorganic materials that can be combined into composite materials and their characteristics are summarized herein. The given materials are just examples for the composite materials of interest, and many other composites can be synthesized from different types of inorganic and biopolymeric materials.