Bikramjit Basu is Professor at the Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in March 2001. His research spans to areas of biomaterials science, biophysics, ceramics and tribological science with applications in key areas, including reconstructive surgery involved in orthopedics and external field induced ex-vivo tissue formation. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research papers with 20 papers in the Journal of American Ceramic Society. In recognition of his contributions to the field of ceramic and biomaterials science, he received noteworthy awards from the Indian National Science Academy (2005), Metallurgist of the Year award (2010) from the Ministry of Steel, Government of India and lately, NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award, 2010 from Elsevier. He is the first and only Indian to date to receive the prestigious Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society in 2008.

Foreword I; Foreword II; Preface; Section I. Overview: 1. Introduction; 2. Materials for Biomedical Applications; 3. Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Principles and Properties; Section II. Fundamentals ¿ Materials Science: 4. Conventional and Advanced Manufacturing of Biomaterials; 5. Probing Structure of Materials at Multiple Length Scales; 6. Mechanical Properties: Principles and Assessment; Section III. Fundamentals ¿ Biological Science: 7. Cells, Proteins and Nucleic Acids: Structure and Properties; 8. Cell-Material Interaction and Biocompatibility; 9. Probing Cell Response, in vitro; 10. Bacterial Growth and Biofilm Formation; 11. Probing Tissue Response, in vivo; Section IV. Illustrative Examples of Biomaterials Development: 12. Case Study: Corrosion and Wear of Selected Ti-alloys; 13. Case Study: Calcium Phosphate¿Mullite Composites; 14. Case Study: Compression Moulded HDPE-based Hybrid Biocomposites; 15. Case Study: Phase Stability, Bactericidal and Cytocompatibility of HA¿Ag; 16. Case Study: HA-CaTiO3 based Multifunctional Composites; 17. Case Study: Compatibility of Neuronal/Cardiac Cells with Patterned Substrates; 18. Perspectives; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Index; Colour Plates.