1. Introduction to biopolymers for surgical suture applications -- 2. Functionalization of sutures -- 3. Improving the therapeutic value of sutures -- 4. Evaluating the mechanical properties of sutures -- 5. Polymers for surgical sutures -- 6. Smart sutures -- 7. Bioactive sutures: advances in surgical suture functionalization -- 8. Engineering aspects of suture fabrication -- 9. Revisiting the properties of suture materials: an overview -- 10. Suture materials, emerging trends -- 11. Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of polymer sutures -- 12. Shape memory polymers as sutures -- 13. Drug release kinetics of sutures
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