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

<p>BIKRAMJIT BASU, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include ceramic and polymer-based biocompatible materials, nanoceramics and nanoceramic composites, and tribology of advanced materials. He received the Coble Award of the American Ceramic Society in 2008 and was recognized by the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.</p> <p>DHIRENDRA S. KATTI, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, and nanotechnology.</p> <p>ASHOK KUMAR, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include the design of supermacroporous polymeric materials and smart polymers for application in tissue engineering, development of cell separation technology, extracorporeal medical devices, and high-throughput analysis. His other research interests include bioprocess engineering, biosensors, and environmental biotechnology.</p>

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