[August 2002]

Inorganic Biomaterials: Chemistry, Design and Applications

The RSC Industrial Inorganic Chemical Sector aims to encourage links between academic research into inorganic chemicals and materials and their applications within the industry sector.

This one day meeting, in association with the UK Society for Biomaterials, will highlight some issues within the research sector enabling industrialists to learn new capabilities of applications of such materials.

Programme:

09.30 Registration and Coffee

10.00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Session Chair
To be confirmed

10.10 Apatite for Bone Grafting
Dr Serena Best - University of Cambridge

10.45 Dental Ceramics
Professor Peter Marquis, University of Birmingham

11.20 Tea/Coffee break

11.40 Biological Reactions to Glasses and Ceramics in Medicine
Dr Paul Hatton, University of Sheffield

12.10 Market Opportunities
Speaker to be confirmed

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Session Chair
Professor John Nicholson, University of Greenwich

13.50 Biomimetic Approaches to Inorganic Materials Synthesis
Professor Stephen Mann, University of Bristol

14.25 New Technologies
Dr John Rose, Smith & Nephew

15.0 Tea/Coffee Break

15.20 Phosphate Based Glasses for Tissue Engineering
Dr Jonathan Knowles, University College London

15.55 Structure and Properties of Bioactive Glasses
Dr Robert Hill, Imperial College

Scientific Societies' Lecture Theatre
New Burlington Place, London
12 November 2002



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