Advanced Biomaterials Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications [Hardcover]

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.

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 TIlÃ*