Tissue Engineering Using Ceramics and Polymers (Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials)

About the AuthorAldo R. Boccaccini is Professor of Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of ErlangenNuremberg, Germany. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (20002009). He has remained Visiting Professor of Materials at Imperial College London. He is also visiting professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan), RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). The research activities of Prof. Boccaccini are in the broad area of glasses, ceramics and polymer/glass composites for biomedical, functional and/or structural applications. Prof. Boccaccini has also developed the electrophoretic deposition technique for production of nanostructured materials and composites with defined surface topography with potential use in the biomedical field. He is the author or coauthor of more than 450 scientific papers and 15 book chapters. Boccaccini is Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) and of the American Ceramic Society. He is the EditorinChief of the journal Materials Letters (Elsevier) and serves in the editorial board of several recognized international journals. He has also edited two books with Elsevier.Dr Julie E. Gough is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Materials at the University of Manchester, UK. Dr Gough is widely respected for her research and activities in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering.Product DescriptionTechnology and research in the field of tissue engineering has drastically increased within the last few years to the extent that almost every tissue and organ of the human body could potentially be regenerated. With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, Tissue Engineering using Ceramics and Polymers reviews the latest research and advances in this thriving area and how they can be used to develop treatments for disease states.Part one discusses general issues such as ceramic and polymeric biomaterials, scaffolds, transplantation of engineered cells, surface modification and drug delivery. Later chapters review characterisation using xray photoelectron spectroscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry as well as environmental scanning electron microscopy and Raman microspectroscopy. Chapters in part two analyse bone regeneration and specific types of tissue engineering and repair such as cardiac, intervertebral disc, skin, kidney and bladder tissue. The book concludes with the coverage of themes such as nerve bioengineering and the micromechanics of hydroxyapatitebased biomaterials and tissue scaffolds.Tissue Engineering using Ceramics and Polymers is an innovative reference for professionals and academics involved in the field of tissue engineering.From the Back CoverResearch and developments in tissue engineering have led to strong growth in this area. An important part of this is the progress in the applications of biomaterials in tissue engineering, making it an area of great interest in the scientific community. This second edition is a comprehensive review of the advances in the uses of ceramics and polymers in this field.Part I considers the biomaterials used for tissue engineering. It introduces the properties and processing of bioactive ceramics and glasses as well as polymeric biomaterials, particularly biodegradable polymer phase nanocomposites. Part II reviews the advances in techniques for processing, characterisation and modelling of materials. The topics covered range from nanoscale design in biomineralization for bone tissue engineering to microscopy techniques for characterising cells to materials for perfusion bioreactors. Further, carrier systems and biosensors in biomedical applications are considered. Finally, Part III looks at the specific types of tissue and organ regeneration, with chapters concerning kidney, bladder,