A collection of 15 papers from The American Ceramic Societys 38th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 26-31, 2014. This issue includes papers presented in Symposium 5 - Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites and Symposium 9 - Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications.
Roger Narayan is the editor ofAdvances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.
Paolo Colombo is the editor ofAdvances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.
Andrew Gyekenyesi is the volume editor ofAdvances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.
Michael Halbig is the volume editor ofAdvances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.
Preface vii
Introduction ix
BIOCERAMICS
Influence of the Hydroxyapatite Powder Properties on Its Properties Rheology Behavior 3
Y.M.Z. Ahmed, S.M. El-Sheikh, and Z.I. Zaki
Nanostructural Ca-Aluminate Based BiomaterialsAn Overview 13
Leif Hermansson and Jesper Lööf
Antimicrobial Effects of Formable Gelatinous Hydroxyapatite-Calcium Silicate Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications 25
Hsin Chen, Dong-Joon Lee, He Zhang, Roland Arnold, and Ching-Chang Ko
Use of Inter-Fibril Spaces among Electrospun Fibrils as Ion-Fixation and Nano-Crystallization 33
Yuki Shirosaki, Satoshi Hayakawa, Yuri Nakamura, Hiroki Yoshihara, Akiyoshi Osaka, and Artemis Stamboulis
Fractographic Analysis of Broken Ceramic Dental Restorations 39
G. D. Quinn
In Vivo Evaluation of Scaffolds with a Grid-Like Microstructure Composed of a Mixture of Silicate (13-93) and Borate (13-93B3) Bioactive Glasses 53
Yifei Gu, Wenhai Huang, and Mohamed N. Rahaman
Osteoconductive and Osteoinductive Implants Composed of Hollow Hydroxyapatite Microspheres 65
Mohamed N. Rahaman, Wei Xiao, Yongxing Liu, and B. Sonny Bal
Deposition of Amorphous CaP on Pure Titanium in DMEM at 37°C 81
A. Cuneyt Tas
One-Pot Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanospheres of Amorphous Calcium Phosphate (ACP) in a Simple Biomineralization Medium 93
A. Cuneyt Tas
POROUS CERAMICS
Determination of Elastic Moduli for Porous SOFC Cathode Films using Nanoindentation and FEM 111
Zhangwei Chen, Finn Giuliani, and Alan Atkinson
Mechanical Modeling of Microcracked Porous Ceramics 129
Ray S. Fertig III and Seth Nickerson
Synthesis and Characterization of Aerogel Glass Materials for Window Glazing Applications 141
Tao Gao, Bjørn Petter Jelle, Arild Gustavsen, and Jianying He
Reticulated Ceramics under Bending: The Non-Linear Regime before Their Catastrophic Failure 151
Ehsan Rezaei, Giovanni Bianchi, Alberto Ortona, and Sandro Gianella
Novel Low Temperature Ceramics for CO2 Capture 165
Hutha Sarma and Steven Ogunwumi
Effects of SiC Particle Size and Sintering Temperature on Microstructure of Porous SiC Ceramics Based on In-Situ Grain Growth 173
Katsumi Yoshida, Chin-Chet See, Satoshi Yokoyama, and Toyohiko Yano
Author Index 185
