Clinical Applications of Biomaterials

1. How Did Bioactive Glasses Revolutionize Medical Science? A Tribute to Larry Hench
Gurbinder Kaur, John C. Mauro, Vishal Kumar, Gary Pickrell, Francesco Baino

2. Variation in Properties of Bioactive Glasses After Surface Modification
Vojislav Stanić

3. Apatites for Orthopedic Applications
Berna Kankilic, Eda Ciftci Dede, Petek Korkusuz, Muharrem Timuçin, Feza Korkusuz

4. Calcium Phosphate Cements for Medical Applications
Fatma Ozdemir, Iain Evans, Oana Bretcanu

5. Calcium Orthophosphate-Based Bioceramics and Its Clinical Applications
Sergey V. Dorozhkin

6. Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates for Drug, Gene, DNA and Protein Delivery and as Anticancer Chemotherapeutic Devices
Andy H. Choi, Innocent J. Macha, Sibel Akyol, Sophie Cazalbou, Besim Ben-Nissan

7. Synthesis and Functionalization of Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses for Drug Delivery
F. Branda

8. Bioactive Glass/Polymer Composites for Drug Delivery
Telma Zambanini, Roger Borges, Juliana Marchi

9. Restorative Dental Glass-Ceramics: Current Status and Trends
Maziar Montazerian, Edgar Dutra Zanotto

10. Bioactive Glass-Based Composites for Cranioplasty Implants
Arnab Mahato, Biswanath Kundu

11. Antibacterial Properties of Bioactive Glasses
Muhammad Akram, Rafaqat Hussain

12. Development of URIST™ a Multiphasic rhBMP-2 Bone Graft Substitute
Sean A. F. Peel, Aileen J. J. Zhou, Hanje Chen, Cameron M. L. Clokie

13. Development and In Vitro Analysis of a New Biodegradable PLA/Hydroxyapatite (HAp) Composite for Biomedical Applications
Innocent J. Macha, Besim Ben-Nissan, Andy Choi, Sophie Cazalbou

14. Biomaterials for Cell Encapsulation: Progress Toward Clinical Applications
Gurbinder Kaur, Francesco Baino, John C. Mauro, Vishal Kumar, Gary Pickrell, Nammalwar Sriranganathan, Steven Grant Waldrop

Nyckelord: Materials Science, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology