Integrated Biomaterials Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Biological Materials

   • Yoshito Ikada

   Pages 1-23

3. Structure and Properties of Polymeric Materials

   • Walter Marconi, Antonella Piozzi

   Pages 25-68

4. Fundamentals of Polymeric Composite Materials

   • Claudio Migliaresi, Alessandro Pegoretti

   Pages 69-117

5. Biodegradable Polymers

   • Luca Fambri, Claudio Migliaresi, Kemal Kesenci, Erhan Piskin

   Pages 119-187

6. Bioceramics and Biological Glasses

   • A. Krajewski, A. Ravaglioli

   Pages 189-254

7. Metallic Materials

   • Alberto Cigada, Roberto Chiesa, Maria Rosa Pinasco, Kunihiro Hisatsune

   Pages 255-296

8. Degradation Processes on Metallic Surfaces

   • Emma Angelini, Angelo Caputo, Fabrizio Zucchi

   Pages 297-324

9. Characterization of Biomaterials

   • Donald Lyman

   Pages 325-337

10. Tissues

    • Luigi Ambrosio, Paolo A. Netti, Peter A. Revell

    Pages 339-345

11. Soft Tissue

    • Luigi Ambrosio, Paolo A. Netti, Luigi Nicolais

    Pages 347-365

12. The Eye

    • Domenico Lepore, Luigi Ambrosio, Roberto De Santis, Luigi Nicolais, Luigi Scullica

    Pages 367-379

13. Articular Cartilage

    • Paolo A. Netti, Luigi Ambrosio

    Pages 381-402

14. The Material and Mechanical Properties of the Healthy and Degenerated Intervertebral Disc

    • Ron Alkalay

    Pages 403-424

15. Soft Tissue Replacement

    • Matteo Santin, Luigi Ambrosio, Andrew W. Lloyd, Stephen P. Denyer

    Pages 425-458

16. Mechanics of Hard Tissues

    • Arturo N. Natali, Richard T. Hart

    Pages 459-489

17. Hip Joint Prosthesis

    • Giuseppe Guida, Dante Ronca

    Pages 491-525

18. Knee Joint Replacements

    • Dante Ronca, Giuseppe Guida

    Pages 527-554

19. Biomaterial Applications: Elbow Prosthesis

    • Luigi Celli

    Pages 555-559

20. Biomaterial Applications: Shoulder Prosthesis

    • Luigi Celli

    Pages 561-568

Integrated Biomaterials Science provides an intriguing insight into the world of biomaterials. It explores the materials and technology which have brought advances in new biomaterials, highlighting the way in which modern biology and medicine are synergistically linked to other key scientific disciplines-physics, chemistry, and engineering. In doing so, Integrated Biomaterials Science contains chapters on tissue engineering and gene therapy, standards and parameters of biomaterials, applications and interactions within the industrial world, as well as potential aspects of patent regulations.
Integrated Biomaterials Science serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding this dynamic field, yet is designed so that chapters may be read and understood independently, depending on the needs of the reader. Integrated Biomaterials Science is attractive to a broad audience interested in a deeper understanding of this evolving field, and serves as a key resource for researchers and students of biomaterials courses, providing all with an opportunity to probe further.

• Biomaterial
• Tissue Engineering
• bone
• cartilage
• ceramics
• composite material
• polymer
• tissue

• Interuniversity Research Center for Advanced Medical Systems (C.R.I.S.M.A.) Department of Chemical and Biosystem Sciences and Technologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  Rolando Barbucci

Rolando Barbucci is Director of the Interuniversity Research Center for Advanced Medical Systems (C.R.I.S.M.A) and Head of the Department of Chemical and Biosystem Sciences and Technologies at the University of Siena, Italy. A former President of the Interdivisional Group of Biomaterials (G.I.B.) of the Italian Chemical Society, he is an accomplished chemist and biomaterials scientist, with 5 patents and more than 250 publications to his credit. He has a deep interest in the integration and applications of biomaterials within this growing field spanning medicine, biology, chemistry, and bioengineering.

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