Table of Contents
Foreword (by Prof. Larry L. Hench) ix
Preface xi
Contributors xv
About the Editors xxi
SECTION I
1 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOMATERIALS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY 3Bikramjit Basu and Shekhar Nath
2 FUNDAMENTALS OF HYDROXYAPATITE AND RELATED CALCIUM PHOSPHATES 19Racquel Zapanta LeGeros, Atsuo Ito, Kunio Ishikawa, Toshiro Sakae, and John P. LeGeros
3 MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS 53Shekhar Nath and Bikramjit Basu
4 THE MICRO MACROPOROUS BIPHASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CONCEPT FOR BONE RECONSTRUCTION AND TISSUE ENGINEERING 101Guy Daculsi, Franck Jegoux, and Pierre Layrolle
5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED TITANIUM DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS 143Yoshiki Oshida and Elif Bahar Tuna
6 INJECTABLE HYDROGELS AS BIOMATERIALS 179Lakshmi S. Nair, Cato T. Laurencin, and Mayank Tandon
7 NANOMATERIALS FOR IMPROVED ORTHOPEDIC AND BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS 205Lijie Zhang, Sirinrath Sirivisoot, Ganesh Balasundaram, and Thomas J. Webster
SECTION II
8 INTRODUCTION TO PROCESSING OF BIOMATERIALS 245Dhirendra S. Katti, Shaunak Pandya, Meghali Bora, and Rakesh Mahida
9 LASER PROCESSING OF ORTHOPEDIC BIOMATERIALS 277Rajarshi Banerjee and Soumya Nag
10 FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ALL CERAMIC HIP JOINT 323Omer Van der Biest, Guy Anné, Kim Vanmeensel, and Jef Vleugels
11 MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON BIOINSPIRED CERAMICS 357Pío González, Julián Martínez-Fernández, Antonio R. de Arellano-López, and Mrityunjay Singh
12 IONOMER GLASSES: DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION 411Artemis Stamboulis and Fei Wang
13 DESIGNING NANOFIBROUS SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING 435Neha Arya, Poonam Sharma, and Dhirendra S. Katti
14 DESIGN OF SUPERMACROPOROUS BIOMATERIALS VIA GELATION AT SUBZERO TEMPERATURES—CRYOGELATION 499Fatima M. Plieva, Ashok Kumar, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo Mattiasson
SECTION III
15 BIOMATERIAL APPLICATIONS 535Ashok Kumar, Akshay Srivastava, and Era Jain
16 CELL-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES AND BIOMOLECULES FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING 551Michelle Ngiam, Susan Liao, Casey Chan, and S. Ramakrishna
17 ORTHOPEDIC INTERFACE TISSUE ENGINEERING: BUILDING THE BRIDGE TO INTEGRATED MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE SYSTEMS 589Helen H. Lu, Kristen L. Moffat, and Jeffrey P. Spalazzi
18 CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION 613Carlos Atico Ariza and Surya K. Mallapragada
19 PLACENTAL UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD: A TRUE BLOOD SUBSTITUTE 643Niranjan Bhattacharya
20 SUPPORTED CELL MIMETIC MONOLAYERS AND THEIR BLOOD COMPATIBILITY 663K. Kaladhar and Chandra P. Sharma
21 TITANIUM NITRIDE AND DIAMOND LIKE CARBON COATINGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS 677C.V. Muraleedharan and G.S. Bhuvaneshwar
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