1 Bioactive Materials and processing
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Calcium Phosphate Ceramics
1.3 Bioactive Glasses and Glass-Ceramics
1.4 Bioactive Coatings
1.5 Bioactive Composites
1.6 Coucluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References
2 Biocompatibility of Materials
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The host Responses to Materials
2.3 Biological Performance of Biomaterials
2.4 Biccompatibility Assessment
2.5 Protein Adsorption at Inrerfaces
2.6 Aurface Modifications for Enhanced Biocompatibility
2.7 Future Directions
References
3 Biotechnoloeical Applications of Inorganic Glasses
3.1 The Nature of Inorganic Glass
3.2 Why Inorganic Glasses?
3.3 Properties Pertinent to Biotechnology and Biomedicine
3.4 Summary
References
4 Biocomposite
4.1 Introduction
4.2 High-Performance Titanium Phosphates
4.3 Porous Glass Ceramics for Immobilization of Enzymes
4.4 Preparation Procedures of Porous Glass Ceramics
4.5 Porous Glass-Ceramics with Bacteriostatic Activity
4.6 Porous Grass-Ceramics with an integrated Skeleton
4.7 Coucluding Remarks
References
5 Tissue Engineering
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Index