Foreword (by Prof. Larry L. Hench) ix Preface xi Contributors xv About the Editors xxi SECTION I 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOMATERIALS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY 3 Bikramjit Basu and Shekhar Nath 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF HYDROXYAPATITE AND RELATED CALCIUM PHOSPHATES 19 Racquel Zapanta LeGeros, Atsuo Ito, Kunio Ishikawa, Toshiro Sakae, and John P. LeGeros 3 MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS 53 Shekhar Nath and Bikramjit Basu 4 THE MICRO MACROPOROUS BIPHASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CONCEPT FOR BONE RECONSTRUCTION AND TISSUE ENGINEERING 101 Guy Daculsi, Franck Jegoux, and Pierre Layrolle 5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED TITANIUM DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS 143 Yoshiki Oshida and Elif Bahar Tuna 6 INJECTABLE HYDROGELS AS BIOMATERIALS 179 Lakshmi S. Nair, Cato T. Laurencin, and Mayank Tandon 7 NANOMATERIALS FOR IMPROVED ORTHOPEDIC AND BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS 205 Lijie Zhang, Sirinrath Sirivisoot, Ganesh Balasundaram, and Thomas J. Webster SECTION II 8 INTRODUCTION TO PROCESSING OF BIOMATERIALS 245 Dhirendra S. Katti, Shaunak Pandya, Meghali Bora, and Rakesh Mahida 9 LASER PROCESSING OF ORTHOPEDIC BIOMATERIALS 277 Rajarshi Banerjee and Soumya Nag 10 FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ALL CERAMIC HIP JOINT 323 Omer Van der Biest, Guy Anné, Kim Vanmeensel, and Jef Vleugels 11 MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON BIOINSPIRED CERAMICS 357 Pío González, Julián Martínez-Fernández, Antonio R.
de Arellano-López, and Mrityunjay Singh 12 IONOMER GLASSES: DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION 411 Artemis Stamboulis and Fei Wang 13 DESIGNING NANOFIBROUS SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING 435 Neha Arya, Poonam Sharma, and Dhirendra S. Katti 14 DESIGN OF SUPERMACROPOROUS BIOMATERIALS VIA GELATION AT SUBZERO TEMPERATURES--CRYOGELATION 499 Fatima M. Plieva, Ashok Kumar, Igor Yu. Galaev, and Bo Mattiasson SECTION III 15 BIOMATERIAL APPLICATIONS 535 Ashok Kumar, Akshay Srivastava, and Era Jain 16 CELL-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES AND BIOMOLECULES FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING 551 Michelle Ngiam, Susan Liao, Casey Chan, and S. Ramakrishna 17 ORTHOPEDIC INTERFACE TISSUE ENGINEERING: BUILDING THE BRIDGE TO INTEGRATED MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE SYSTEMS 589 Helen H. Lu, Kristen L. Moffat, and Jeffrey P. Spalazzi 18 CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION 613 Carlos Atico Ariza and Surya K.
Mallapragada 19 PLACENTAL UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD: A TRUE BLOOD SUBSTITUTE 643 Niranjan Bhattacharya 20 SUPPORTED CELL MIMETIC MONOLAYERS AND THEIR BLOOD COMPATIBILITY 663 K. Kaladhar and Chandra P. Sharma 21 TITANIUM NITRIDE AND DIAMOND LIKE CARBON COATINGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS 677 C.V. Muraleedharan and G.S. Bhuvaneshwar INDEX 707.