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Roger Narayan is Associate Professor at the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering of North Carolina State University. Earlier assignments have taken him e.g. to Oak Ridge National Lab. His research centers on biomedical engineering including biomaterials and nanoscale systems, intelligent systems, biomedical sensors, as well as nanoelectronics and photonics. He also has publishing experience with Journal boards.

Paolo C. Colombo is a cardiologist who specialized in treating patients with heart failure, cardiac assist device and heart transplant. Dr. Colombo is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

Preface ix

Introduction xi

BIOCERAMICS

Effect of Precursor Solubility on the Mechanical Strength of HAP Block 3
Nurazreena Ahmad, Kanji Tsuru, Melvin L. Munar, Shigeki Matsuya, and Kunio Ishikawa

Carbonate Apatite Formation during the Setting Reaction of Apatite Cement 7
Arief Cahyanto, Kanji Tsuru, and Kunio Ishikawa

In Vitro Evaluation of Silicate and Borate Bioactive Glass Scaffolds Prepared by Robocasting of Organic-Based Suspensions 11
Aylin M. Deliormanl and Mohamed N. Rahaman

Translucent Zirconia-Silica Glass Ceramics for Dental Crowns 21
Wei Xia, Cecilia Persson, Erik Unosson, Ingrid Ajaxon, Johanna Engstrand, Torbjörn Mellgren, and Hakan Engqvist

Using Microfocus X-Ray Computed Tomography to Evaluate Flaws in Ceramic Dental Crowns 29
Y. Zhang and J. C. Hanan

Residual Stress and Phase Transformation in Zirconia Restoration Ceramics 37
M. Allahkarami and J. C. Hanan

Heterogeneous Structure of Hydroxyapatite and In Vitro Degradability 49
Satoshi Hayakawa, Yuki Shirosaki and Akiyoshi Osaka, and Christian Jäger

Aspects of Antibacterial Properties of Nanostructural Calcium Aluminate Based Biomaterials 57
Leif Hermansson

Potential Toxicity of Bioactive Borate Glasses In-Vitro and In-Vivo 65
Steven B. Jung, Delbert E. Day, Roger F. Brown, and Linda F. Bonewald

Fabrication of Carbonate Apatite-PLGA Hybrid Foam Bone Substitute 75Girlie M. Munar, Melvin L. Munar, Kanji Tsuru, Shigeki Matsuya, and Kunio Ishikawa

UV-lrradiation Modifies Chemistry of Anatase Layer Associated with In Vitro Apatite Nucleation 79
Keita Uetsuki, Shinsuke Nakai, Yuki Shirosaki, Satoshi Hayakawa, and Akiyoshi Osaka

Preparation of Magnesium Containing Bioactive Ti02 Ceramic Layer on Titanium by Hydrothermal Treatment 85
Xingling Shi, Masaharu Nakagawa, Lingli Xu, and Alireza Valanezhad

Millimeter-Sized Granules of Brushite and Octacalcium Phosphate from Marble Granules 91
A. Cuneyt Tas

Microstructures and Physical Properties of Biomorphic SiSiC Ceramics Manufactured Via LSI-Technique 105
Steffen Weber, Raouf Jemmali, Dietmar Koch, and Heinz Voggenreiter

Biofluid Flow Simulation of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Dendrite Structures 117
Satoko Tasaki, Chiaki Maeda, and Soshu Kirihara

POROUS CERAMICS

Multifunctional Carbon Bonded Filters for Metal Melt Filtration 125
Christos G. Aneziris, Marcus Emmel, and Anja Stolle

Failure and Stiffness Analysis of Ceramic from a 25-mm Diameter Diesel Particulate Filter 139
Ethan E. Fox, Andrew A. Wereszczak, Michael J. Lance, and Mattison K. Ferber

Development of Porous SiC with Tailorable Properties 153
Prashant Karandikar, Glen Evans, Eric Klier, and Michael Aghajanian

Obtaining Porous Corundum Ceramics by Utilization of Waste Rice Husk—Investigation of Composition, Structure and Thermal Degradation of Rice Husk 163
Irena Markovska, Bogdan Bogdanov, Dimitar Georgiev, and Yancho Hristov

Processing, Microstructure and Properties of Reticulated Vitreous Carbon Foam Manufactured Via the Sponge Replication Technique 175
David Haack and Rudolph Olson III

Air-Atmosphere Sintering of Si3N4-Based Porous and Foamed Ceramics 187
Philip T. J. Gagnon, Amit K. Gandhi, and Kevin P. Plucknett

Comparison of Elastic Moduli of Porous Cordierite by Flexure and Dynamic Test Methods 197
R. J. Stafford, K. B. Golovin, A. Dickinson, T. R. Watkins, A. Shyam, and E. Lara-Curzio

Author Index 205