Biomaterials Science and Biocompatibility

This text for students and researchers, takes an interdisciplinary app roach to describing the chemistry and physics of materials, their bioc ompatibility, and the consequences of implantation of devices made of these materials into the human body. The reader is introduced to the p rinciples of polymer science and the study of metals, ceramics and com posites, and also to the basic biology required to understand the natu re of the host-transplant interface.