Creating an alias for the find command in Linux

I have created the following alias in my .bashrc file: alias find='find . -type f -name' This obviates the need to type . -type f -name every time I do a file search. However, I still have to enclose search strings with '\*...*'. How could I include these in the alias, so that instead of having to type: find '*string*' I could just type, find string