Biomedical Materials

1. The Fundamental Properties of the Materials Used in Medicine and Dentistry

2. Ceramics and Glasses
Irene G. Turner

3. Metallic Biomaterials
Robert M. Pilliar

4. Polymeric Biomaterials
Teerapol Srichana, Abraham J. Domb

2. The Interaction Between Materials and Living Tissues

5. Biomaterials: Processing, Characterization, and Applications
Damien Lacroix, Josep A. Planell

6. Metal Corrosion
Miroslav Marek

7. Wear
Chunming Jin, Wei Wei

8. Inflammation, Carcinogenicity and Hypersensitivity
Patrick Doherty

9. Protein Interactions at Material Surfaces
Janice L. McKenzie, Thomas J. Webster

10. Sterility and Infection
Showan N. Nazhat, Anne M. Young, Jonathan Pratten

11. Biocompatibility Testing
Kirsten Peters, Ronald E. Unger, C. James Kirkpatrick

3. Applications of Polymers, Metals, and Ceramics in Medicine

12. Biomaterials for Dental Applications
Sarit B. Bhaduri, Sutapa Bhaduri

13. Ophthalmic Biomaterials
Rachel L. Williams, David Wong

14. Hip Prosthesis
Afsaneh Rabiei

15. Burn Dressing Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Lauren E. Flynn, Kimberly A. Woodhouse

16. Natural and Synthetic Polymeric Scaffolds
Diana M. Yoon, John P. Fisher

17. BioMEMS
Florent Cros

18. Magnetic Particles for Biomedical Applications
Raju V. Ramanujan

19. Specialized Fabrication Processes: Rapid Prototyping
C.K. Chua, K.F. Leong, K.H. Tan

20. Manufacturing Issues
David Hill

Avainsanat: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials, Biotechnology