Micro‎- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface explores the direct engineering of cell surfaces‎,‎ enabling materials scientists and chemists to manipulate or augment cell functions and phenotypes‎.‎ The book is accessible for readers across industry‎,‎ academia‎,‎ and in clinical settings in multiple disciplines‎,‎ including materials science‎,‎ engineering‎,‎ chemistry‎,‎ biology‎,‎ and medicine‎.‎ Written by leaders in the field‎,‎ it covers numerous cell surface engineering methods along with their current and potential applications in cell therapy‎,‎ tissue engineering‎,‎ biosensing‎,‎ and diagnosis‎.‎ The interface of chemistry‎,‎ materials science‎,‎ and biology presents many opportunities for developing innovative tools to diagnose and treat various diseases‎.‎ However‎,‎ cell surface engineering using chemistry and materials science approaches is a new and diverse field‎.‎ This book provides a full coverage of the subject‎,‎ introducing the fundamentals of cell membrane biology before exploring the key application areas‎.‎ * Demystifies the direct engineering of cell surfaces‎,‎ enabling materials scientists and chemists to manipulate or augment cell functions and phenotypes* Provides a toolkit of micro‎- and nanoengineering approaches to the manipulation of the cell surface* Unlocks the potential of cell surface manipulation for a range of new applications in the fields of in vitro research‎,‎ cell therapy‎,‎ tissue engineering‎,‎ biosensing‎,‎ and diagnostics