The use of ceramics in biological environments and biomedical applications is of increasing importance, as is the understanding of how biology works with minerals to develop strong materials. Specific information about biomimetics, and processing, performance and interactions of materials for biomedical applications is presented in this collection.
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PROCESSING OF BIOMATERIALS.
Preparation and Bioactive Characteristics of Porous Borate Glass
Substrates (M.N. Rahaman, W. Liang, D.E. Day, N.W. Marion, G.C.
Reilly, J.J. Mao).
Processing of Thermally Sprayed Tricalcium Phosphate (TCP) Coatings
on Bioresorbable Polymer Implants (M. Baccalaro, R. Gadow, A.
Killinger, K. v. Niessen).
Synthesis and Sintering Studies of Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite
Powders Doped with Magnesium and Zinc (H. Bhatt, S.J.
Kalita).
Sequence Specific Morphological Control Over the Formation of
Germanium Oxide During Peptide Mediated Synthesis (M.B. Dickerson,
Y. Cai, K.H. Sandhage, R.R. Naik, M.O. Stone).
Synthesis of Nano-Size Hydroxyapatite (HAp) Powders by Mechanical
Alloying (S.J. Hong, H. Bhatt, C. Suryanarayana, S.J.
Kalita).
Dry High Speed Milling as a New Machining Technology of Ceramics
for Biomedical and Other Applications (A. Georgiadis, E.
Sergeev).
BIOMATERIALS, PERFORMANCE AND TESTING.
Nanoceramics Intercalated with Gd-DTPA for Potential Imaging of
Systems In Vivo (S.-Y. Kwak, W.M. Kriven, R.B. Clarkson,
B.J. Tucker, R.L. Belford).
Nanophase Hydroxyapatite Coatings on Titanium for Improved
Osteoblast Functions (M. Sato, M.A. Sambito, A. Aslani, N.M.
Kalkhoran, E.B. Slamovich, T.J. Webster).
A Comparative Evaluation of Orthopaedic Cements in Human Whole
Blood (N. Axén, N.-O. Ahnfelt, T. Persson, L. Hermansson, J.
Sanchez, R. Larsson).
Self-Setting Orthopedic Cement Compositions Based on
Ca HPOX4 Additions to Calcium Sulphate by J.N. Swaintek,
C.J. Han, A.C. Tas, S.B. Bhaduri Adhesive Strength of the Apatite
Layer Formed on Ti O2 Nanoparticles/High Density
Polyethylene Composites (M. Hashimoto, H. Takadama, M. Mizuno, T.
Kokubo).
Effect of Reinforcements on Properties of Self-Setting Calcium
Phosphate Cement (N.C. Bhorkar, W.M. Kriven).
The Bioactivity of PDMS-Ca O-Si O2 Based Hybrid Materials
Prepared by the Addition of Transition Metal Alkoxides (M.
Fukushima, E. Yasuda, H. Kita, M. Shimizu, Y. Hoshikawa, Y.
Tanabe).
In Vitro Comparison of the Apatite Inducing Ability of Three
Different SBF Solutions on Tiz6A14V (S.
Jalota, A.C. Tas, S.B. Bhaduri).
In Situ and Long Term Evaluation of Calcium Phosphate Cement
Behavior in Animal Experiment (M. Mukaida, M. Neo, T. Nakamura, Y.
Mizuta, Y. Ikeda, M. Mizuno).
Resorption Rate Tunable Bioceramic: Si&Zn-Modified Tricacium
Phosphate (X. Wei, M. Akinc).
DENTAL CERAMICS.
Microleakage of a Dental Restorative Material Based on Biominerals
(H. Engqvist, E. Abrahamsson, J. Lööf, L.
Hermansson).
A Comparative Study of the Microstructure-Property Relationship in
Human Adult and Baby Teeth (I.M. Low, N. Duraman, J. Fulton, N.
Tezuka, I.J. Davies).
About the author
Mineo Mizuno and Dongming Zhu are the editors of Advances in Bioceramics and Biocomposites: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 29th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Jan 23-28, 2005, Cocoa Beach, FL, Volume 26, Issue 6, published by Wiley.