Biological and Bioinspired Materials and Devices: Symposium Held April 13-16, 2004, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Aizenberg (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, US), Landis (Northeastern Ohio U. College of Medicine, US), Orme (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US), and Wang (U. of British Columbia, Canada) present 39 papers drawn from the eponymously named Materials Research Society symposium of April 2004. The papers, as a whole, consider research into the properties of biological materials and the application of that knowledge to the manufacture of synthetic materials that mimic their biological counterparts. Topics include the biomaterialization and the properties of biominerals; implant materials for dental, orthopedic, or other medical applications; tissue adhesives and cements; material degradation and implant failure; characterization techniques and imaging of biomaterials; supramolecular and biological self-assembly; structure and dynamics of organic/inorganic interfaces; and bionanotechnology and biosensors. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR