Biomaterials Science

Preface vi i NEXT GENERATION BIOMATERIALS Ultrafine-Grained Commercially Pure Titanium and MicrostructureResponse to Hydroxyapatite Coating Methods 3 Kayla Calvert, Kevin Trumble, Srinivasan Chandrasekar, and MarkHoffman Preparation of Porous Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds using Yeast as aPore Forming Agent 15 Sophie C. Cox and Kajal K. Mallick Understanding the Influence of SrO Doping on the MechanicalProperties of ß-TCP Ceramics 27 Ken DeVoe, Amit Bandyopadhyay, and Susmita Bose Dental Application Field Based on Nanostructural ChemicallyBonded Ca-Aluminate 33 Leif Hermansson Freeze Extrusion Fabrication of 13-93 Bioactive Glass Scaffoldsfor Repair and Regeneration of Load-Bearing Bones 45 T. S. Huang, M. N. Rahaman, N. D. Doiphode, M. C. Leu, B. S.Bal, D. E. Day, and X. Liu Porous Biodegradable Scaffolds for Hard Tissue Engineering57 Kajal K. Mallick and James Winnett Synthesis of Nano Hydroxyapatite by Chemical Precipitation UsingDifferent Surfactant Templates 67 Shahid Amin and Mohammad Mujahid Effect of TiB2 or Y203 Additions on MechanicalBiofunctionality of Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr for Biomedical Applications75 Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Satoshi Yonezawa, Xiu Song, andLei Wang Apatite Nano-Rods Array Grown on Glass Substrates in AqueousSystems 83 A. Osaka, Y. Shirosaki, S. Hayakawa, K. Tsuru, E. Fujii, and K.Kawabata Dielectric Properties of Porous Calcium Titanate (CaTi03)89 G. A. Rott, F. Zhang, Y. Haba, W. Kröger, and E.Burkel Nanocomposites of Poly(L-Lactic Acid) and Maghemite for DrugDelivery of Caffeine 95 A. Vargas, F. G. Souza Jr. SURFACE PROPERTIES OF BIOMATERIALS Hard and Wear Resistant Surfaces for Load Bearing Metal Implants109 Vamsi Krishna Baila, Susmita Bose, and AmitBandyopadhyay Influence of Electro-Thermal Polarization on Surface Propertiesof Hydroxyapatite 125 S. Bodhak, S. Bose, and A. Bandyopadhyay Calcium Phosphate Ceramics in Drug Delivery and Bone TissueEngineering 135 Susmita Bose, Solaiman Tarafder, Shashwat Banerjee, and AmitBandyopadhyay Nanoscale Hydroxyapatite Coatings on Ti: SimultaneousEnhancement of Mechanical and Biological Properties 147 Mangal Roy, Amit Bandyopadhyay, and Susmita Bose Thermal Sprayed Bioceramics Coatings for Metallic Implants159 T. P. S, Sarao, H. Singh, H. Singh, and R. Chhibbe Role of Reinforced Materials in Thermal Sprayed HydroxyapatiteCoating on Bio Implants: A Review 173 Gurbhinder Singh, Surendra Singh, and Satya Prakash Selective Laser Sintering Fabrication of 13-93 Bioactive GlassBone Scaffolds 185 M. Velez, K. C. R. Kolan, M. C. Leu, G. E. Hilmas, and R. F.Brown Author Index 195