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[April 2004]
Bioceramics Volume Published
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) has announced the publication of 'Bioceramics: Materials and Applications IV', Volume 147 in the 'Ceramic Transactions' series.
The content of these proceedings comes from a symposium honouring Larry Hench, a pioneer in the field of bioceramics. Professor Hench has condensed his Sosman Lecture into the keynote paper of this volume. In addition, this proceedings volume draws together research in the different aspects of bioceramics and illustrates its unifying themes. Apatites and active bone substitute materials are well represented, with extended analyses of processing effects and variations in making these materials more functional.
A series of papers on interactions between ceramics and biological environments with some much needed analysis of why ceramics succeed - or don't - in vivo are included in this volume.
The volume (ISBN 1-57498-202-8) is 160 pages in hard cover and is priced at 96/€142.08 (or 76.80/€113.66 for ACerS Members).
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