Special issue: Management and delivery of acrylic-based materials for use in hard tissue replacement

International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials 3(1) 2010

• Bone cement: an overview
• Investigations on drop penetration and wetting characteristics of powder-liquid systems in relation to the mixing of acrylic bone cement
• The effect of mixing technique on fatigue of bone cement when stress concentrations are present
• Effect of vacuum mixing and manual pressurisation on residual strains in polymethyl methacrylate bone cement mantles
• Effects of intermittent overloads on fatigue of PMMA bone cement
• Influence of a novel radiopacifier (nano-sized strontia particles) on in vitro properties of a PMMA bone cement for use in total joint replacements
• Part 1: In-vitro release of gentamicinpalmitate coating in uncemented titanium implants
• Part 2: Effectiveness of a novel gentamicinpalmitate coating on biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis