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Inorganic and composite bioactive scaffolds for bone tissue engineering / Q.Z. Chen, Oana Bretcanu, Aldo R. Boccaccini -- Design, fabrication and characterization of scaffolds via solid free-form fabrication techniques / Dietmar W. Hutmacher and Maria Ann Woodruff -- Control and monitoring of scaffold architecture for tissue engineering / Ying Yang ... [et al.] -- Rapid prototyping methods for tissue engineering applications / Giovanni Vozzi and Arti Ahluwalia -- Design and fabrication principles of electrospinning of scaffolds / Dietmar W. Hutmacher and Andrew K. Ekaputra -- Nanoparticles in cancer drug delivery systems / So Yeon Kim and Young Moo Lee -- Polymeric nano/microparticles for oral delivery of proteins and peptides / S. Sajeesh and Chandra P. Sharma -- Nanostructured porous biomaterials for controlled drug release systems / Yang Yang Li, Jifan Li, and Bunichiro Nakajima -- Inorganic nanostructures for drug delivery / Ying-Jie Zhu -- Self-assembly of nanostructures as biomaterials / Hua Ai, Yujiang Fan, and Zhongwei Gu --

Electrohydrodynamic processing of micro- and nanometer biological materials / Yiquan Wu and Robert Lewis Clark -- Fabrication and function of biohybrid nanomaterials prepared via supramolecular approaches / Katsuhiko Ariga -- Polypyrrole nano- and microsensors and actuators for biomedical applications / Yevgeny Berdichevsky and Yu-Hwa Lo -- Processing of biosensing materials and biosensors / Yingchun Zhu, Yu Yang, and Yanyan Liu -- Synthetic and natural degradable polymeric biomaterials / Sanjukta Deb -- Electroactive polymers as smart materials with intrinsic actuation properties: new functionalities for biomaterials / Federico Carpi and Danilo De Rossi -- Blood contacting surfaces / Menno L.W. Knetsch -- Improving blood compatibility of biomaterials using a novel antithrombin-heparin covalent complex / Leslie Roy Berry and Anthony Kam Chuen Chan -- Surface modification of biomaterials using plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition / Xuanyong Liu, Ricky K.Y. Fu, Paul K. Chu -- Biomaterials for gastrointestinal medicine, repair and reconstruction / Richard M. Day -- Biomaterials for cartilage reconstruction and repair / Wojciech Swieszkowski ... [et al.].