Bioceramics: Properties, Characterizations, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Joon Park (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bioceramics: Properties, Characterizations, and Applications is a general introduction to the uses of ceramics and glasses in the human body for the purposes of aiding, healing, correcting deformities, and restoring lost function. With over 35 years experience, the author developed the text as an outgrowth of a course for senior and beginning graduate students in biomedical engineering and will emphasize the fundamentals and applications in modern implant fabrication, and will also deal with tissue engineering scaffolds made of ceramics.
Organized as a textbook for the student needing to acquire the core competencies, it will meet the demands of advanced undergraduate or graduate coursework in bioceramics, biomaterials, biomedical engineering, and biophysics.
Key Features:
 Detailed illustrations
 Example problems to provide the student with hands-on experience with concepts
 Extensive appendices and tutorial materials on new developments including expanded treatment of ceramic materials and implants
 Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
 Detailed references for further reading
About the Author:
Joon Park is a Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Structure of Ceramics and Glasses....Pages 10-26
Characterization of Ceramics and Glasses....Pages 27-66
Glass Formation and Characterization....Pages 67-79
Hard Tissues: Structure, Properties, Healing, Remodeling, and Biocompatibility....Pages 80-112
Aluminum Oxides (Alumina)....Pages 113-135
Zirconium Oxides (Zirconia)....Pages 136-161
Glass-Ceramics....Pages 162-176
Hydroxyapatite....Pages 177-197
Carbons and Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings....Pages 198-218
Sulfates and Titanates....Pages 219-237
Composites, Tissue Substitutes, and Scaffolds....Pages 238-292
Back Matter....Pages 1-59

✦ Subjects

Biomedical Engineering; Biomaterials; Biophysics/Biomedical Physics; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films