Production of macroporous polymeric materials by phase separation polymerization / Oguz Okay -- Production and properties of cryogels by radical polymerization / Fatima M. Plieva, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo Mattiasson -- Macroporous polymer scaffolds through leaching processes / Michael C. Hacker, Kristina Ambrosch, and Michaela Schulz-Siegmun -- Production and properties of poly(vinyl alcohol) cryogels : recent developments / Maria C. Gutierrez. [et al.] -- Preparation of polylactide scaffolds / Ming-Hua Ho. [et al.] -- Macroporous polysaccharide gels / Fatima M. Plieva, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo Mattiasson -- Superporous agarose gels : production, properties, and applications / Per-Erik Gustavsson, Peter Tiainen, and Per-Olof Larsson -- Fast-responsive macroporous hydrogels / Hossein Omidian and Kinam Park -- Characterization of macroporous gels / Irina N. Savina. [et al.] --

Macroporous polymeric materials : synthetic strategies and morphological characterizations / Anil K. Bajpai and Sandeep K. Shukla -- Macroporous gels for isolation of small molecules from the solutions containing suspended material / Bo Mattiasson, Fatima M. Plieva, and Igor Yu. Galaev -- Monolithic macroporous polymers as chromatographic matrices / Nika Lendero Krajnc. [et al.] -- Chromatographic separation of plasmid DNA using macroporous beads / Duarte M. de Franca Prazeres -- Cryogels as matrices for cell separation and cell cultivation / Maria B. Dainiak. [et al.] -- Macroporous polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering applications / Ashok Kumar, Era Jain, and Akshay Srivastava -- Polymeric scaffolds for regenerative medicine / Paul A. De Bank, Matthew D. Jones, and Marianne J. Ellis.

Macroporous polymers are rapidly becoming the material of choice for many tissue engineering, bioseparation, and bioprocessing applications. Presented in a systematic way, this book addresses the production, characterization, and application of these polymers.