Table of Contents

1 Biomaterials and 3D Printing Techniques for Neural Tissue Regeneration.- 2 Stem Cells, Bioengineering, and 3-D Scaffolds for Nervous System Repair and Regeneration.- 3 Engineering Neuronal Patterning and Defined Axonal Elongation In Vitro.- 4 Building blocks for bottom-up neural tissue engineering: tools for controlling and assembling neural circuits.- 5 Electrically Conductive Materials for Nerve Regeneration.- 6 Bioactive Nanomaterials for Neural Engineering.- 7 Cell Sources and Nanotechnology for Neural Tissue Engineering.- 8 Brain-Machine Interfaces: Restoring and Establishing Communication Channels.- 9 In vitro Modeling of Nervous System: Engineering of the Reflex Arc.

About the Author

Lijie Grace Zhang is Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University, and is Director of the Bioengineering Laboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering. She is also Associate Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Nanomedicine. 
David Kaplan holds an Endowed Chair, the Stern Family Professor of Engineering, at Tufts University. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and also holds faculty appointments in the School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and is Associate Editor for the ACS journal Biomacromolecules.