Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction ix

BIOCERAMICS

Potential of Bioactive Glass Scaffolds as Implants for Structural Bone Repair 3
Mohamed N. Rahaman, B. Sonny Bal, and Lynda F. Bonewald

In Vitro Degradation and Conversion of Melt-Derived Bioactive Glass Microfibers in Simulated Body Fluid 17
Mohamed N. Rahaman, Xin Liu, and Delbert E. Day

On the Formation of Apatites in the Chemically Bonded CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O Bioceramic System 29
Leif Hermansson, Gunilla Gomez-Ortega, Emil Abrahamsson, and Jesper Lööf

Fabrication and Characterization of Nano Bioglass-Ceramic Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering 37
Sampath Kumar Arepalli, Himanshu Tripathi, M. Vyshali Nanda, V.Sri Sravya, Ram Pyare, and S. P. Singh

Synthesis and Characterization of Co-Cu Ferrite and Bioglass Composites for Hyperthermia Treatment of Cancer 51
V. Chalisgaonkar, K. Pandey, A. S. Kumar, H. Tripathi, S. P. Singh, and R. Pyare

Alpha–Beta Phase Transformation in Tricalcium Phosphate (TCP) Ceramics: Effect of Mg2+ Doping 63
Matteo Frasnelli and Vincenzo M. Sglavo

Experimental Approach to Study the Thermal Induced State of Stress in a Medical Ceramic Bilayer 71
V. Mercurio

Effect of Grain Boundary Segregation on the Hydrothermal Degradation of Dental 3Y-TZP Ceramics 81
F. Zhang, M. Inokoshi, K. Vanmeensel, B. Van Meerbeek, I. Naert, and J. Vleugels

POROUS CERAMICS

Treatment of Produced Water using Silicon Carbide Membrane Filters 91
Abhaya K. Bakshi, Rajendra Ghimire, Eric Sheridan, and Melanie Kuhn

Microcapsules from Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Clay Particles 107
Gisèle L. Lecomte-Nana, Volga Niknam, Anne Aimable, Marguerite Bienia, David Kpogbemabou, Jean-Charles Robert-Arnouil, and Asma Lajmi

Author Index 125

About the Author

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.