Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5

A collection of 15 papers from The American Ceramic Society’s 38th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 26-31, 2014. This issue includes papers presented in Symposium 5 - Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites and Symposium 9 - Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications.

Preface vii Introduction ix BIOCERAMICS Influence of the Hydroxyapatite Powder Properties on Its Properties Rheology Behavior 3 Y.M.Z. Ahmed, S.M. El-Sheikh, and Z.I. Zaki Nanostructural Ca-Aluminate Based Biomaterials—An Overview 13 Leif Hermansson and Jesper Lööf Antimicrobial Effects of Formable Gelatinous Hydroxyapatite-Calcium Silicate Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications 25 Hsin Chen, Dong-Joon Lee, He Zhang, Roland Arnold, and Ching-Chang Ko Use of Inter-Fibril Spaces among Electrospun Fibrils as Ion-Fixation and Nano-Crystallization 33 Yuki Shirosaki, Satoshi Hayakawa, Yuri Nakamura, Hiroki Yoshihara, Akiyoshi Osaka, and Artemis Stamboulis Fractographic Analysis of Broken Ceramic Dental Restorations 39 G. D. Quinn In Vivo Evaluation of Scaffolds with a Grid-Like Microstructure Composed of a Mixture of Silicate (13-93) and Borate (13-93B3) Bioactive Glasses 53 Yifei Gu, Wenhai Huang, and Mohamed N. Rahaman Osteoconductive and Osteoinductive Implants Composed of Hollow Hydroxyapatite Microspheres 65 Mohamed N. Rahaman, Wei Xiao, Yongxing Liu, and B. Sonny Bal Deposition of Amorphous CaP on Pure Titanium in DMEM at 37°C 81 A. Cuneyt Tas One-Pot Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanospheres of Amorphous Calcium Phosphate (ACP) in a Simple Biomineralization Medium 93 A. Cuneyt Tas POROUS CERAMICS Determination of Elastic Moduli for Porous SOFC Cathode Films using Nanoindentation and FEM 111 Zhangwei Chen, Finn Giuliani, and Alan Atkinson Mechanical Modeling of Microcracked Porous Ceramics 129 Ray S. Fertig III and Seth Nickerson Synthesis and Characterization of Aerogel Glass Materials for Window Glazing Applications 141 Tao Gao, Bjørn Petter Jelle, Arild Gustavsen, and Jianying He Reticulated Ceramics under Bending: The Non-Linear Regime before Their Catastrophic Failure 151 Ehsan Rezaei, Giovanni Bianchi, Alberto Ortona, and Sandro Gianella Novel Low Temperature Ceramics for CO2 Capture 165 Hutha Sarma and Steven Ogunwumi Effects of SiC Particle Size and Sintering Temperature on Microstructure of Porous SiC Ceramics Based on In-Situ Grain Growth 173 Katsumi Yoshida, Chin-Chet See, Satoshi Yokoyama, and Toyohiko Yano Author Index 185