Radiation Processed Emerging Materials for Biomedical Applications

In this scientific era, radiation processing has become the most applicable and advanced tool for the processing of different emerging materials with different kinds of ionizing radiations to modify and develop their chemical, structural, physical, and thermal properties for biomedical applications. The radiation-processed technique also plays an important role in the development and modifications of nanostructures of materials to enhance their performance. This chapter focuses on the findings of radiation processing of various emerging materials such as nanoparticle synthesis, hydrogel, micro- and nanogel, and different polymeric materials by an electron beam, gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and microwave radiations for biomedical applications. The radiation processing commonly grafting, surface modification, structural alternation, crosslinking, and polymerization of different polymeric materials have been used to process using different ionizing radiations. Microgels and nanogels produced by radiation processing are well applicable for biomedical applications since they can be used as carriers for antibodies used in diagnostics. The radiation-processed polymeric materials have also attracted more attention towards commercial pharmaceutical, health care, and biomedical sectors as they have proved their required property specifications such as biocompatibility, non-toxicity, biodegradability, drug delivery control, ophthalmic (contact lens), and implantation and transplantation of organs in a living body. Herein, the radiations processing of different kinds of materials for biomedical applications are discussed in general.