Advanced Biomaterials

Enables readers to take full advantage of the latest advances in biomaterials and their applications. Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications reviews the latest biomaterials discoveries, enabling readers to take full advantage of the most recent findings in order to advance the biomaterials research and development. Reflecting the nature of biomaterials research, the book covers a broad range of disciplines, including such emerging topics as nanobiomaterials, interface tissue engineering, the latest manufacturing techniques, and new polymeric materials. The book, a contributed work, features a team of renowned scientists, engineers, and clinicians from around the world whose expertise spans the many disciplines needed for successful biomaterials development. All readers will gain an improved understanding of the full range of disciplines and design methodologies that are used to develop biomaterials with the physical and biological properties needed for specific clinical applications.

Enables readers to take full advantage of the latest advances inbiomaterials and their applications.Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, andApplications reviews the latest biomaterials discoveries, enablingreaders to take full advantage of the most recent findings in orderto advance the biomaterials research and development. Reflectingthe nature of biomaterials research, the book covers a broad rangeof disciplines, including such emerging topics as nanobiomaterialsinterface tissue engineering, the latest manufacturing techniquesand new polymeric materials.The book, a contributed work, features a team of renownedscientists, engineers, and clinicians from around the world whoseexpertise spans the many disciplines needed for successfulbiomaterials development. All readers will gain an improvedunderstanding of the full range of disciplines and designmethodologies that are used to develop biomaterials with thephysical and biological properties needed for specific clinicalapplications.

Foreword (by Prof. Larry L. Hench) ixPreface xiContributors xvAbout the Editors xxiSECTION I1 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOMATERIALS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY 3Bikramjit Basu and Shekhar Nath2 FUNDAMENTALS OF HYDROXYAPATITE AND RELATED CALCIUM PHOSPHATES 19Racquel Zapanta LeGeros, Atsuo Ito, Kunio Ishikawa, Toshiro Sakae, and John P. LeGeros3 MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS 53Shekhar Nath and Bikramjit Basu4 THE MICRO MACROPOROUS BIPHASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CONCEPT FOR BONE RECONSTRUCTION AND TISSUE ENGINEERING 101Guy Daculsi, Franck Jegoux, and Pierre Layrolle5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED TITANIUM DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS 143Yoshiki Oshida and Elif Bahar Tuna6 INJECTABLE HYDROGELS AS BIOMATERIALS 179Lakshmi S. Nair, Cato T. Laurencin, and Mayank Tandon7 NANOMATERIALS FOR IMPROVED ORTHOPEDIC AND BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS 205Lijie Zhang, Sirinrath Sirivisoot, Ganesh Balasundaram, and Thomas J. WebsterSECTION II8 INTRODUCTION TO PROCESSING OF BIOMATERIALS 245Dhirendra S. Katti, Shaunak Pandya, Meghali Bora, and Rakesh Mahida9 LASER PROCESSING OF ORTHOPEDIC BIOMATERIALS 277Rajarshi Banerjee and Soumya Nag10 FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ALL CERAMIC HIP JOINT 323Omer Van der Biest, Guy Anné, Kim Vanmeensel, and Jef Vleugels11 MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON BIOINSPIRED CERAMICS 357Pío González, Julián Martínez-Fernández, Antonio R. de Arellano-López, and Mrityunjay Singh12 IONOMER GLASSES: DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION 411Artemis Stamboulis and Fei Wang13 DESIGNING NANOFIBROUS SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING 435Neha Arya, Poonam Sharma, and Dhirendra S. Katti14 DESIGN OF SUPERMACROPOROUS BIOMATERIALS VIA GELATION AT SUBZERO TEMPERATURES--CRYOGELATION 499Fatima M. Plieva, Ashok Kumar, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo MattiassonSECTION III15 BIOMATERIAL APPLICATIONS 535Ashok Kumar, Akshay Srivastava, and Era Jain16 CELL-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES AND BIOMOLECULES FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING 551Michelle Ngiam, Susan Liao, Casey Chan, and S. Ramakrishna17 ORTHOPEDIC INTERFACE TISSUE ENGINEERING: BUILDING THE BRIDGE TO INTEGRATED MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE SYSTEMS 589Helen H. Lu, Kristen L. Moffat, and Jeffrey P. Spalazzi18 CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION 613Carlos Atico Ariza and Surya K. Mallapragada19 PLACENTAL UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD: A TRUE BLOOD SUBSTITUTE 643Niranjan Bhattacharya20 SUPPORTED CELL MIMETIC MONOLAYERS AND THEIR BLOOD COMPATIBILITY 663K. Kaladhar and Chandra P. Sharma21 TITANIUM NITRIDE AND DIAMOND LIKE CARBON COATINGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS 677C.V. Muraleedharan and G.S. BhuvaneshwarINDEX 707