Nanotechnology and tissue engineering : the scaffold based approach / Lakshmi S. Nair, Subhabrata Bhattacharyya, and Cato T. Laurencin -- Polymeric nanofibers in tissue engineering / Seow Hoon Saw, Karen Wang, Thomas Yong, and Seeram Ramakrishna -- Electrospinning technology for nanofibrous scaffolds in tissue engineering / Wan-Ju Li, Rabie M. Shanti, and Rocky S. Tuan -- Nanofibrous scaffolds and their biological effects / Laura A. Smith, Jonathan A. Beck, and Peter X. Ma -- Nanophase biomaterials for tissue engineering /Ramalingam Murugan and Seeram Ramakrishna -- Orthopedic tissue engineering using nanomaterials / Michiko Sato and Thomas J. Webster -- Hydroxyapatite nanocrystals as bone tissue substitute / Norberto Roveri and Barbara Palazzo -- Magnetic nanoparticles for tissue engineering / Akira Ito and Hiroyuki Honda -- Applications and implications of single-walled carbon nanotubes in tissue engineering / Peter S. McFetridge and Matthias U. Nollert -- Nanoparticles for cell engineering : a radical concept / Beverly A. Rzigalinski, Igor Danelisen, Elizabeth T. Strawn, Courtney A. Cohen, and Chengya Liang -- Nanoparticles and nanowires for cellular engineering / Jessica O. Winter -- Nanoengineering of Biomaterial Surfaces / Ashwath Jayagopal and Venkatram Prasad Shastri.