M. Christopher Brown & Michael Halbig 
Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics V, Volume 33, Issue 6 [PDF ebook] 

Preface ix
Introduction xi
BIOCERAMICS
Effect of Precursor Solubility on the Mechanical Strength of HAPBlock 3
Nurazreena Ahmad, Kanji Tsuru, Melvin L. Munar, Shigeki Matsuya, and Kunio Ishikawa
Carbonate Apatite Formation during the Setting Reaction of Apatite Cement 7
Arief Cahyanto, Kanji Tsuru, and Kunio Ishikawa
In Vitro Evaluation of Silicate and Borate Bioactive Glass Scaffolds Prepared by Robocasting of Organic-Based Suspensions11
Aylin M. Deliormanl and Mohamed N. Rahaman
Translucent Zirconia-Silica Glass Ceramics for Dental Crowns21
Wei Xia, Cecilia Persson, Erik Unosson, Ingrid Ajaxon, Johanna Engstrand, Torbjörn Mellgren, and Hakan Engqvist
Using Microfocus X-Ray Computed Tomography to Evaluate Flaws in Ceramic Dental Crowns 29
Y. Zhang and J. C. Hanan
Residual Stress and Phase Transformation in Zirconia Restoration Ceramics 37
M. Allahkarami and J. C. Hanan
Heterogeneous Structure of Hydroxyapatite and In Vitro Degradability 49
Satoshi Hayakawa, Yuki Shirosaki and Akiyoshi Osaka, and Christian Jäger
Aspects of Antibacterial Properties of Nanostructural Calcium Aluminate Based Biomaterials 57
Leif Hermansson
Potential Toxicity of Bioactive Borate Glasses In-Vitro and In-Vivo 65
Steven B. Jung, Delbert E. Day, Roger F. Brown, and Linda F.Bonewald
Fabrication of Carbonate Apatite-PLGA Hybrid Foam Bone Substitute 75Girlie M. Munar, Melvin L. Munar, Kanji Tsuru, Shigeki Matsuya, and Kunio Ishikawa
UV-lrradiation Modifies Chemistry of Anatase Layer Associatedwith In Vitro Apatite Nucleation 79
Keita Uetsuki, Shinsuke Nakai, Yuki Shirosaki, Satoshi Hayakawa, and Akiyoshi Osaka
Preparation of Magnesium Containing Bioactive Ti02 Ceramic Layeron Titanium by Hydrothermal Treatment 85
Xingling Shi, Masaharu Nakagawa, Lingli Xu, and Alireza Valanezhad
Millimeter-Sized Granules of Brushite and Octacalcium Phosphatefrom Marble Granules 91
A. Cuneyt Tas
Microstructures and Physical Properties of Biomorphic Si Si CCeramics Manufactured Via LSI-Technique 105
Steffen Weber, Raouf Jemmali, Dietmar Koch, and Heinz Voggenreiter
Biofluid Flow Simulation of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Dendrite Structures 117
Satoko Tasaki, Chiaki Maeda, and Soshu Kirihara
POROUS CERAMICS
Multifunctional Carbon Bonded Filters for Metal Melt Filtration125
Christos G. Aneziris, Marcus Emmel, and Anja Stolle
Failure and Stiffness Analysis of Ceramic from a 25-mm Diameter Diesel Particulate Filter 139
Ethan E. Fox, Andrew A. Wereszczak, Michael J. Lance, and Mattison K. Ferber
Development of Porous Si C with Tailorable Properties 153
Prashant Karandikar, Glen Evans, Eric Klier, and Michael Aghajanian
Obtaining Porous Corundum Ceramics by Utilization of Waste Rice Husk–Investigation of Composition, Structure and Thermal Degradation of Rice Husk 163
Irena Markovska, Bogdan Bogdanov, Dimitar Georgiev, and Yancho Hristov
Processing, Microstructure and Properties of Reticulated Vitreous Carbon Foam Manufactured Via the Sponge Replication Technique 175
David Haack and Rudolph Olson III
Air-Atmosphere Sintering of Si3N4-Based Porous and Foamed Ceramics 187
Philip T. J. Gagnon, Amit K. Gandhi, and Kevin P.Plucknett
Comparison of Elastic Moduli of Porous Cordierite by Flexure and Dynamic Test Methods 197
R. J. Stafford, K. B. Golovin, A. Dickinson, T. R. Watkins, A.Shyam, and E. Lara-Curzio
Author Index 205

Roger Narayan is Associate Professor at the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering of North Carolina State University. Earlier assignments have taken him e.g. to Oak Ridge National Lab. His research centers on biomedical engineering including biomaterials and nanoscale systems, intelligent systems, biomedical sensors, as well as nanoelectronics and photonics. He also has publishing experience with Journal boards.
Paolo C. Colombo is a cardiologist who specialized in treating patients with heart failure, cardiac assist device and heart transplant. Dr. Colombo is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.