Biomaterials Science

Preface NEXT GENERATION BIOCERAMICS Evaluation of Long-Term Mechanical and Biological Biocompatibility of Low-Cost -Type Ti-Mn Alloys for Biomedical Applications 3 Ken Cho, Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Pedro Fernandes Santos, Alethea Morgane Liens, Masahiko Ikeda, and Tomokazu Hattori Control of Ag Release from Ag-Containing Calcium Phosphates in Simulated Body Fluid 13 Ozkan Gokcekaya, Kyosuke Ueda, and Takayuki Narushima Gallium-Containing Ferrites for Hyperthermia Treatment 21 J. Sánchez, Dora Alicia Cortés-Hernández, José C. Escobedo-Bocardo, Rosario A. Jasso-Terán, Pamela Y. Reyes-Rodríguez, and Gilberto F. Hurtado-López Exploration of Amorphous and Crystalline Tri-Magnesium Phosphates for Bone Cements 33 Nicole Ostrowski, Vidisha Sharma, Abhijit Roy, and Prashant N. Kumta Micro-X-Ray Diffraction Study of New Nickel-Titanium Rotary Endodontic Instruments 47 William A. Brantley, Masahiro Iijima, William A.T. Clark, Scott R. Schricker, John M. Nusstein, and Itaru Mizoguchi Torsional Properties of Nanostructured Titanium Cortical Bone Screws 55 J.A.Disegi, B. Shultzabarger, and Michael Roach Strengthening Behaviors of Low-Precious Ag-Pd-Au-Zn Alloys for Dental Applications 63 Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Junko Hieda, Ken-Cho, Yonghwan Kim, and Hisao Fukui Effect of Immersion Medium on the Degradation and Conversion of Silicate (13-93) Bioactive Glass Scaffolds 73 Yifei Gu, Wenhai Huang, and Mohamed N. Rahaman Evaluation of Long-Term Bone Regeneration in Rat Calvarial Defects Implanted with Strong Porous Bioactive Glass (13-93) Scaffolds 85 Mohamed N. Rahaman, Yinan Lin, Wei Xiao, X. Liu, and B. Sonny Bal Magnesium Single Crystal as a Biodegradable Implant Material 97 Madhura Joshi, Pravahan Salunke, Guangqi Zhang, Vibhor Chaswal, Zhongyun Dong, and Vesselin Shanov SURFACE PROPERTIES OF BIOMATERIALS Damage Evaluation of TiO2 Nanotubes on Titanium 117 Anish Shivaram, Susmita Bose, and Amit Bandyopadhyay Drug Delivery from Surface Modified Titanium Alloy for Load-Bearing Implants 129 Susmita Bose, Dishary Banerjee, Sam Robertson, Solaiman Tarafder, and Amit Bandyopadhyay A Family of Novel Biostable Reticulated Elastomeric and Resilient Biointregative Crosslinked Polyurethane-Urea Scaffolds 137 Arindam Datta and Larry Lavelle In Situ Nitridation of Titanium Using LENS(TM) 149 Himanshu Sahasrabudhe, Julie Soderlind, and Amit Bandyopadhyay Magnesium Doped Hydroxyapatite: Synthesis, Characterization and Bioactivity Evaluation 161 Jaswinder Singh, Harpal Singh, and Uma Batra Novel PLA- and PCL-HA Porous 3D Scaffolds Prepared by Robocasting Facilitate MC3T3-E1 Subclone 4 Cellular Attachment and Growth 175 V. G. Varanasi, J. Russias, E. Saiz, P. M. Loomer, and A. P. Tomsia Dextran Coated Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles for Inhibiting Bone Cancer Cell Functions 187 Ece Alpaslan, Hilal Yazici, Negar Golshan, Katherine S. Ziemer, and Thomas J. Webster Author Index 197