Preface ix
Mechanical and Microstructural Characterization of 45S5 Bioglass® 1
Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
E. A. Aguilar-Reyes, C. A. Leon-Patino, B. Jacinto-Diaz, and L.-P. Lefebvre
Next-Generation Rotary Endodontic Instruments Fabricated from 11
Special Nickel-Titanium Alloy
William A. Brantley, Jie Liu, Fengyuan Zheng, Scott R. Schricker, John M. Nusstein, William AT. Clark, Libor Kovarik, Masahiro lijima, and Satish B. Alapati
Preparation of Nanophase Hydroxyapatite via Self Propagating High 19
Temperature Synthesis
Sophie C. Cox and Kajal K. Mallick
Low Temperature Sintering of Ti-6AI-4V for Orthopedic Implant 35
Applications
Kyle Crosby and Leon Shaw
Cytotoxicity Evaluation of 63S Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles by 47
Microcalorimetry
A. Doostmohammadi, A. Monshi, M. H. Fathi, O. Braissant, and A. U. Daniels
Biological Aspects of Chemically Bonded Ca-Aluminate Based 55
Biomaterials
Leif Hermansson
Titanium Alloys with Changeable Young's Modulus For Preventing 65
Stress Shielding and Springback
Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Junko Hieda, Xiaoli Zhao, and Xfeng Zhao
Bioactive Glass in Bone Tissue Engineering 73
Mohamed N. Rahaman, Xin Liu, B. Sonny Bai, Delbert E. Day, Lianxiang Bi, and Lynda F. Bonewald
Sintering of Hydroxyapatite 83
Monica Sawicki, Kyle Crosby, Ling Li, and Leon Shaw
In Vivo Evaluation of 13-93 Bioactive Glass Scaffolds Made by 91
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
M. Velez, S. Jung, K. C. R. Kolan, M. C. Leu, D. E. Day, and T-M.G. Chu
Effect of Sintering Temperature on Microstructural Properties of 101
Bioceramic Bone Scaffolds
Juan Vivanco, Aldo Araneda, and Heidi-Lynn Ploeg
Application of Polymer-Based Microfluidic Devices for the Selection 111
and Manipulation of Low-Abundant Biological Cells
Malgorzata A. Witek, Udara Dharmasiri, Samuel K. Njoroge, Morayo G. Adebiyi, Joyce W. Kamande, Mateusz L. Hupert, Francis Barany, and Steven A. Soper
Laser Processed Tantalum for Implants 123
Amit Bandyopadhyay, Solaiman Tarafder, Vamsi Krishna Balla, and Susmita Bose
The Role of Bacterial Attachment to Metal Substrate and Its Effects 131
on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) in Transporting Hydrocarbon Pipelines
Faisal M. AlAbbas, Anthony Kakpovbia, David L Olson, Brajendra Mishra, and John R. Spear
Electrophoretic Deposition of Soft Coatings for Orthopaedic 145
Applications
Sigrid Seuss, Alejandra Chavez, Tomohiko Yoshioka, Jannik Stein, and Aldo R. Boccaccini
Glutamic Acid-Biphasic Calcium Phosphates: In Vitro Bone 153
Cell-Material Interactions
Solaiman Tarafder, Ian McLean, and Susmita Bose
Detonation Spraying of Ti02-Ag: Controlling the Phase Composition 161
and Microstructure of the Coatings
Dina V. Dudina, Sergey B. Zlobin, Vladimir Yu. Ulianitsky, Oleg I. Lomovsky, Natalia V. Bulina, Ivan A. Bataev, and Vladimir A. Bataev
Si02 and SrO Doped ss-TCP: Influence of Dopants on Mechanical 171
and Biological Properties
Gary Fielding, Johanna Feuerstein, Amit Bandyopadhyay, and Susmita Bose
Inhibition of Low-Temperature Degradation and Biocompatibility on 183
Surface of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia by Electric Polarization
Naohiro Horiuchi, Norio Wada, Miho Nakamura, Akiko Nagai, and Kimihiro Yamashita
Biomaterials for Therapeutic Gene Delivery 191
Eric N. James, Bret D. Ulery, and Lakshmi S. Nair
Sol-Gel Synthesized Bio-Active Nanoporous Sodium Zirconate 213
Coating on 316L Stainless Steel for Biomedical Application
K. Bavya Devi and N. Rajendran
Influences of Sr, Zn and Mg Dopants on Osteoclast Differentiation 227
and Resorption
Mangal Roy, Gary Fielding, and Susmita Bose
A Comparitive Study of Cell Behaviors of Hydroxyapatite and 239
Ti-6AI-4V
Ling Li, Kyle Crosby, Monica Sawicki, Leon L. Shaw, and Yong Wang
Comparative Studies of Cold and Thermal Sprayed Hydroxyapatite 249
Coatings for Biomedical Applications-A Review
Ravinder Pal Singh and Niraj Bala
Injectable Biomimetic Hydrogels with Carbon Nanofibers and Novel 261
Self Assembled Chemistries for Myocardial Applications
Xiangling Meng, David Stout, Linlin Sun, Hicham Fenniri, and Thomas Webster
A Quantitative Method to Assess Iron Contamination Removal from 269
a Non-Ferrous Metal Surface after Passivation
Sophie X. Yang, Lakshmi Sharma, and Bernice Aboud
Author Index 277
