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Preface ix

Mechanical and Microstructural Characterization of 45S5 Bioglass® 1
Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
E. A. Aguilar-Reyes, C. A. Leon-Patino, B. Jacinto-Diaz, and L.-P. Lefebvre

Next-Generation Rotary Endodontic Instruments Fabricated from 11
Special Nickel-Titanium Alloy
William A. Brantley, Jie Liu, Fengyuan Zheng, Scott R. Schricker, John M. Nusstein, William AT. Clark, Libor Kovarik, Masahiro lijima, and Satish B. Alapati

Preparation of Nanophase Hydroxyapatite via Self Propagating High 19
Temperature Synthesis
Sophie C. Cox and Kajal K. Mallick

Low Temperature Sintering of Ti-6AI-4V for Orthopedic Implant 35
Applications
Kyle Crosby and Leon Shaw

Cytotoxicity Evaluation of 63S Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles by 47
Microcalorimetry
A. Doostmohammadi, A. Monshi, M. H. Fathi, O. Braissant, and A. U. Daniels

Biological Aspects of Chemically Bonded Ca-Aluminate Based 55
Biomaterials
Leif Hermansson

Titanium Alloys with Changeable Young's Modulus For Preventing 65
Stress Shielding and Springback
Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Junko Hieda, Xiaoli Zhao, and Xfeng Zhao

Bioactive Glass in Bone Tissue Engineering 73
Mohamed N. Rahaman, Xin Liu, B. Sonny Bai, Delbert E. Day, Lianxiang Bi, and Lynda F. Bonewald

Sintering of Hydroxyapatite 83
Monica Sawicki, Kyle Crosby, Ling Li, and Leon Shaw

In Vivo Evaluation of 13-93 Bioactive Glass Scaffolds Made by 91
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
M. Velez, S. Jung, K. C. R. Kolan, M. C. Leu, D. E. Day, and T-M.G. Chu

Effect of Sintering Temperature on Microstructural Properties of 101
Bioceramic Bone Scaffolds
Juan Vivanco, Aldo Araneda, and Heidi-Lynn Ploeg

Application of Polymer-Based Microfluidic Devices for the Selection 111
and Manipulation of Low-Abundant Biological Cells
Malgorzata A. Witek, Udara Dharmasiri, Samuel K. Njoroge, Morayo G. Adebiyi, Joyce W. Kamande, Mateusz L. Hupert, Francis Barany, and Steven A. Soper

Laser Processed Tantalum for Implants 123
Amit Bandyopadhyay, Solaiman Tarafder, Vamsi Krishna Balla, and Susmita Bose

The Role of Bacterial Attachment to Metal Substrate and Its Effects 131
on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) in Transporting Hydrocarbon Pipelines
Faisal M. AlAbbas, Anthony Kakpovbia, David L Olson, Brajendra Mishra, and John R. Spear

Electrophoretic Deposition of Soft Coatings for Orthopaedic 145
Applications
Sigrid Seuss, Alejandra Chavez, Tomohiko Yoshioka, Jannik Stein, and Aldo R. Boccaccini

Glutamic Acid-Biphasic Calcium Phosphates: In Vitro Bone 153
Cell-Material Interactions
Solaiman Tarafder, Ian McLean, and Susmita Bose

Detonation Spraying of Ti02-Ag: Controlling the Phase Composition 161
and Microstructure of the Coatings
Dina V. Dudina, Sergey B. Zlobin, Vladimir Yu. Ulianitsky, Oleg I. Lomovsky, Natalia V. Bulina, Ivan A. Bataev, and Vladimir A. Bataev

Si02 and SrO Doped ß-TCP: Influence of Dopants on Mechanical 171
and Biological Properties
Gary Fielding, Johanna Feuerstein, Amit Bandyopadhyay, and Susmita Bose

Inhibition of Low-Temperature Degradation and Biocompatibility on 183
Surface of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia by Electric Polarization
Naohiro Horiuchi, Norio Wada, Miho Nakamura, Akiko Nagai, and Kimihiro Yamashita

Biomaterials for Therapeutic Gene Delivery 191
Eric N. James, Bret D. Ulery, and Lakshmi S. Nair

Sol-Gel Synthesized Bio-Active Nanoporous Sodium Zirconate 213
Coating on 316L Stainless Steel for Biomedical Application
K. Bavya Devi and N. Rajendran

Influences of Sr, Zn and Mg Dopants on Osteoclast Differentiation 227
and Resorption
Mangal Roy, Gary Fielding, and Susmita Bose

A Comparitive Study of Cell Behaviors of Hydroxyapatite and 239
Ti-6AI-4V
Ling Li, Kyle Crosby, Monica Sawicki, Leon L. Shaw, and Yong Wang

Comparative Studies of Cold and Thermal Sprayed Hydroxyapatite 249
Coatings for Biomedical Applications—A Review
Ravinder Pal Singh and Niraj Bala

Injectable Biomimetic Hydrogels with Carbon Nanofibers and Novel 261
Self Assembled Chemistries for Myocardial Applications
Xiangling Meng, David Stout, Linlin Sun, Hicham Fenniri, and Thomas Webster

A Quantitative Method to Assess Iron Contamination Removal from 269
a Non-Ferrous Metal Surface after Passivation
Sophie X. Yang, Lakshmi Sharma, and Bernice Aboud

Author Index 277