Advanced Biomaterials

Advanced Biomaterials provides a broad introduction to the field, encompassing fundamentals, processing, and applications. With contributions from leading experts from around the world, it covers a wide range of topics, emphasizing emerging areas of interest including nanobiomaterials, interface tissue engineering, new manufacturing techniques such as Laser Assisted Net Shaping (LENS), and new polymeric materials. This is an excellent textbook for upper level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a practical self-teaching guide for researchers and practitioners interested in the field.

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
Pí o Gonzá lez, Juliá n Martí nez-Ferná ndez, Antonio R. de Arellano-Ló pez, 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