1. Guest Editorial: Composites in medicine (Special Issue for the Symposium on Composites in Medicine at ACCM-5)

   • Min Wang

   EditorialNotes 25 April 2008 Pages: 2533 - 2534

2. Selective laser sintering of porous tissue engineering scaffolds from poly(l-lactide)/carbonated hydroxyapatite nanocomposite microspheres

   • Wen You Zhou
   • Siu Hang Lee
   • Wing Yuk Ip

   OriginalPaper 10 July 2007 Pages: 2535 - 2540

   

3. Melt flow behaviour of poly-ε-caprolactone in fused deposition modelling

   • H. S. Ramanath
   • C. K. Chua
   • K. D. Shah

   OriginalPaper 10 July 2007 Pages: 2541 - 2550

   

4. Experimental validation of a new approach for the development of mechano-compatible composite scaffolds for vascular tissue engineering

   • Frédéric Couet
   • Diego Mantovani

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2007 Pages: 2551 - 2554

   

5. Fabrication of HA/PHBV composite scaffolds through the emulsion freezing/freeze-drying process and characterisation of the scaffolds

   • Naznin Sultana
   • Min Wang

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2007 Pages: 2555 - 2561

   

6. Morphology and adhesion of mesenchymal stem cells on PLLA, apatite and apatite/collagen surfaces

   • Yun Chen
   • M. R. Cho
   • S. Sun

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2007 Pages: 2563 - 2567

   

7. Electrophoretic deposition of HA/MWNTs composite coating for biomaterial applications

   • Changjian Lin
   • Huijuan Han
   • Aimin Li

   OriginalPaper 10 July 2007 Pages: 2569 - 2574

   

8. The one-pot synthesis of dextran-based nanoparticles and their application in in-situ fabrication of dextran-magnetite nanocomposites

   • Hongjing Dou
   • Bin Xu
   • Kang Sun

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2007 Pages: 2575 - 2580

   

9. In vivo toxic studies and biodistribution of near infrared sensitive Au–Au₂S nanoparticles as potential drug delivery carriers

   • Xiao-Li Huang
   • Bin Zhang
   • Gan-Moog Chow

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2007 Pages: 2581 - 2588

   

10. Intraosseous pressure and strain generated potential of cylindrical bone samples in the drained uniaxial condition for various loading rates

    • Junghwa Hong
    • Sang Ok Ko
    • Mu Seong Mun

    OriginalPaper 04 October 2007 Pages: 2589 - 2594

    

11. A novel strategy to graft RGD peptide on biomaterials surfaces for endothelization of small-diamater vascular grafts and tissue engineering blood vessel

    • Jiehua Li
    • Mingming Ding
    • Yinping Zhong

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2595 - 2603

    

12. Preparation and characterization of honokiol nanoparticles

    • Ma Ling Gou
    • Mei Dai
    • Yu Quan Wei

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2605 - 2608

    

13. New radiopaque acrylic bone cement. II. Acrylic bone cement with bromine-containing monomer

    • M. C. Rusu
    • I. C. Ichim
    • M. Rusu

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2609 - 2617

    

14. Surface properties and in vitro Streptococcus mutans adhesion to dental resin polymers

    • Sebastian Hahnel
    • Martin Rosentritt
    • Gerhard Handel

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2619 - 2627

    

15. A comparison of different nanostructured biomaterials in subcutaneous tissue

    • Julia C. Vogt
    • Gudrun Brandes
    • Martin Stieve

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2629 - 2636

    

16. Fabrication of bioactive hydroxyapatite/bis-GMA based composite via three dimensional printing

    • J. Suwanprateeb
    • R. Sanngam
    • W. Suwanpreuk

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2637 - 2645

    

17. Electrochemical corrosion behaviour of dental/implant alloys in saline medium

    • Mohit Sharma
    • A. V. Ramesh Kumar
    • Nirbhay Singh

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2647 - 2653

    

18. In vitro study on the influence of strontium-doped calcium polyphosphate on the angiogenesis-related behaviors of HUVECs

    • Y. W. Chen
    • G. Q. Shi
    • C. X. Wan

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2655 - 2662

    

19. Syntheses, structures and photophysical properties of iron containing hydroxyapatite prepared by a modified pseudo-body solution

    • Junhu Wang
    • Toru Nonami
    • Kunio Yubata

    OriginalPaper 16 January 2008 Pages: 2663 - 2667

    

20. Synthesis and characterization of tricalcium phosphate with Zn and Mg based dopants

    • Weichang Xue
    • Kelli Dahlquist
    • Susmita Bose

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2008 Pages: 2669 - 2677

    

21. Mulberry non-engineered silk gland protein vis-à-vis silk cocoon protein engineered by silkworms as biomaterial matrices

    • Joydip Kundu
    • Moumita Dewan
    • S. C. Kundu

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2008 Pages: 2679 - 2689

    

22. Osteoblast cell response to β-tricalcium phosphate scaffolds with controlled architecture in flow perfusion culture system

    • Xiang Li
    • Dichen Li
    • Zhen Wang

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2008 Pages: 2691 - 2697

    

23. Osteointegration of poly(l-lactic acid)PLLA and poly(l-lactic acid)PLLA/poly(ethylene oxide)PEO implants in rat tibiae

    • Débora Cristina Coraça
    • Eliana Aparaecida R. Duek
    • José Angelo Camilli

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2008 Pages: 2699 - 2704

    

24. Synthesis of N-vinylpyrrolidone modified acrylic acid copolymer in supercritical fluids and its application in dental glass-ionomer cements

    • Alireza Moshaverinia
    • Nima Roohpour
    • Ihtesham U. Rehman

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2008 Pages: 2705 - 2711

    

25. Coating of polyurethane scaffolds with collagen: comparison of coating and cross-linking techniques

    • Timothy Douglas
    • Håvard J. Haugen

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2008 Pages: 2713 - 2719

    

26. Biomechanical studies on aliphatic physically crosslinked poly(urethane urea) for blood contact applications

    • Vinoy Thomas
    • Jayabalan Muthu

    OriginalPaper 29 February 2008 Pages: 2721 - 2733

    

27. Novel fabrication of nano-rod array structures on titanium and in vitro cell responses

    • Yongxing Liu
    • Weihui Chen
    • Akiyoshi Osaka

    OriginalPaper 29 February 2008 Pages: 2735 - 2741

    

28. Zirconia toughened alumina ceramic foams for potential bone graft applications: fabrication, bioactivation, and cellular responses

    • X. He
    • Y. Z. Zhang
    • B. Su

    OriginalPaper 29 February 2008 Pages: 2743 - 2749

    

29. Synthesis of tetracalcium phosphate from mechanochemically activated reactants and assessment as a component of bone cements

    • H. E. Romeo
    • M. A. Fanovich

    OriginalPaper 29 February 2008 Pages: 2751 - 2760

    

30. Evaluation of an injectable, photopolymerizable three-dimensional scaffold based on d,l-lactide and ɛ-caprolactone in a tibial goat model

    • Geert Vertenten
    • Lieven Vlaminck
    • Frank Gasthuys

    OriginalPaper 29 February 2008 Pages: 2761 - 2769