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.

Roger Narayan is the editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Paolo Colombo is the editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Andrew Gyekenyesi is the volume editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Michael Halbig is the volume editor of Advances in Bioceramics and Porous Ceramics VII, Volume 35, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

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