Preface ix Mechanical and Microstructural Characterization of 45S5 Bioglass® 1 Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering E. A. Aguilar-Reyes, C. A. Leon-Patino, B. Jacinto-Diaz, and L.-P. Lefebvre Next-Generation Rotary Endodontic Instruments Fabricated from 11 Special Nickel-Titanium Alloy William A. Brantley, Jie Liu, Fengyuan Zheng, Scott R. Schricker, John M. Nusstein, William AT. Clark, Libor Kovarik, Masahiro lijima, and Satish B. Alapati Preparation of Nanophase Hydroxyapatite via Self Propagating High 19 Temperature Synthesis Sophie C. Cox and Kajal K. Mallick Low Temperature Sintering of Ti-6AI-4V for Orthopedic Implant 35 Applications Kyle Crosby and Leon Shaw Cytotoxicity Evaluation of 63S Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles by 47 Microcalorimetry A. Doostmohammadi, A. Monshi, M. H. Fathi, O. Braissant, and A. U. Daniels Biological Aspects of Chemically Bonded Ca-Aluminate Based 55 Biomaterials Leif Hermansson Titanium Alloys with Changeable Young's Modulus For Preventing 65 Stress Shielding and Springback Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Junko Hieda, Xiaoli Zhao, and Xfeng Zhao Bioactive Glass in Bone Tissue Engineering 73 Mohamed N. Rahaman, Xin Liu, B. Sonny Bai, Delbert E. Day, Lianxiang Bi, and Lynda F. Bonewald Sintering of Hydroxyapatite 83 Monica Sawicki, Kyle Crosby, Ling Li, and Leon Shaw In Vivo Evaluation of 13-93 Bioactive Glass Scaffolds Made by 91 Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) M. Velez, S. Jung, K. C. R. Kolan, M. C. Leu, D. E. Day, and T-M.G. Chu Effect of Sintering Temperature on Microstructural Properties of 101 Bioceramic Bone Scaffolds Juan Vivanco, Aldo Araneda, and Heidi-Lynn Ploeg Application of Polymer-Based Microfluidic Devices for the Selection 111 and Manipulation of Low-Abundant Biological Cells Malgorzata A. Witek, Udara Dharmasiri, Samuel K. Njoroge, Morayo G. Adebiyi, Joyce W. Kamande, Mateusz

L. Hupert, Francis Barany, and Steven A. Soper Laser Processed Tantalum for Implants 123 Amit Bandyopadhyay, Solaiman Tarafder, Vamsi Krishna Balla, and Susmita Bose The Role of Bacterial Attachment to Metal Substrate and Its Effects 131 on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) in Transporting Hydrocarbon Pipelines Faisal M. AlAbbas, Anthony Kakpovbia, David L Olson, Brajendra Mishra, and John R. Spear Electrophoretic Deposition of Soft Coatings for Orthopaedic 145 Applications Sigrid Seuss, Alejandra Chavez, Tomohiko Yoshioka, Jannik Stein, and Aldo R. Boccaccini Glutamic Acid-Biphasic Calcium Phosphates: In Vitro Bone 153 Cell-Material Interactions Solaiman Tarafder, Ian McLean, and Susmita Bose Detonation Spraying of Ti02-Ag: Controlling the Phase Composition 161 and Microstructure of the Coatings Dina V. Dudina, Sergey B. Zlobin, Vladimir Yu. Ulianitsky, Oleg I. Lomovsky, Natalia V. Bulina, Ivan A. Bataev, and Vladimir A. Bataev Si02 and SrO Doped ß-TCP: Influence of Dopants on Mechanical 171 and Biological Properties Gary Fielding, Johanna Feuerstein, Amit Bandyopadhyay, and Susmita Bose Inhibition of Low-Temperature Degradation and Biocompatibility on 183 Surface of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia by Electric Polarization Naohiro Horiuchi, Norio Wada, Miho Nakamura, Akiko Nagai, and Kimihiro Yamashita Biomaterials for Therapeutic Gene Delivery 191 Eric N. James, Bret D. Ulery, and Lakshmi S. Nair Sol-Gel Synthesized Bio-Active Nanoporous Sodium Zirconate 213 Coating on 316L Stainless Steel for Biomedical Application K. Bavya Devi and N. Rajendran Influences of Sr, Zn and Mg Dopants on Osteoclast Differentiation 227 and Resorption Mangal Roy, Gary Fielding, and Susmita Bose A Comparitive Study of Cell Behaviors of Hydroxyapatite and 239 Ti-6AI-4V Ling Li, Kyle Crosby, Monica Sawicki, Leon L. Shaw, and Yong Wang

Comparative Studies of Cold and Thermal Sprayed Hydroxyapatite 249 Coatings for Biomedical Applications-A Review Ravinder Pal Singh and Niraj Bala Injectable Biomimetic Hydrogels with Carbon Nanofibers and Novel 261 Self Assembled Chemistries for Myocardial Applications Xiangling Meng, David Stout, Linlin Sun, Hicham Fenniri, and Thomas Webster A Quantitative Method to Assess Iron Contamination Removal from 269 a Non-Ferrous Metal Surface after Passivation Sophie X. Yang, Lakshmi Sharma, and Bernice Aboud Author Index 277.