Biointegration of medical implant materials : Science and design / Chandra P. Sharma (ed.).

Biointegration: an introduction - Soft tissue biointegration - Replacement materials for facial reconstruction at the soft tissue-bone interface - Corneal tissue engineering - Tissue engineering for small-diameter vascular grafts - Stem cells for organ regeneration - Materials facilitating protein drug delivery and vascularisation - Inorganic nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery - Alginate-based drug delivery devices - Functionalised nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery - Biocompatibility of materials and its relevance to drug delivery and tissue engineering - Mechanisms of failure of medical implants during long-term use - Rapid prototyping in biomedical engineering: structural intricacies of biological materials.