The Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding has been published by The American Ceramic Society since 1980. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e. , glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and advanced ceramics.

Preface vii Introduction ix BIOCERAMICS Potential of Bioactive Glass Scaffolds as Implants for Structural Bone Repair 3Mohamed N. Rahaman, B. Sonny Bal, and Lynda F. Bonewald In Vitro Degradation and Conversion of Melt-Derived Bioactive Glass Microfibers in Simulated Body Fluid 17Mohamed N. Rahaman, Xin Liu, and Delbert E. Day On the Formation of Apatites in the Chemically Bonded CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O Bioceramic System 29Leif Hermansson, Gunilla Gomez-Ortega, Emil Abrahamsson, and Jesper Lööf Fabrication and Characterization of Nano Bioglass-Ceramic Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering 37Sampath Kumar Arepalli, Himanshu Tripathi, M. Vyshali Nanda, V.Sri Sravya, Ram Pyare, and S. P. Singh Synthesis and Characterization of Co-Cu Ferrite and Bioglass Composites for Hyperthermia Treatment of Cancer 51V. Chalisgaonkar, K. Pandey, A. S. Kumar, H. Tripathi, S. P. Singh, and R. Pyare Alpha–Beta Phase Transformation in Tricalcium Phosphate (TCP) Ceramics: Effect of Mg2+ Doping 63Matteo Frasnelli and Vincenzo M. Sglavo Experimental Approach to Study the Thermal Induced State of Stress in a Medical Ceramic Bilayer 71V. Mercurio Effect of Grain Boundary Segregation on the Hydrothermal Degradation of Dental 3Y-TZP Ceramics 81F. Zhang, M. Inokoshi, K. Vanmeensel, B. Van Meerbeek, I. Naert, and J. Vleugels POROUS CERAMICS Treatment of Produced Water using Silicon Carbide Membrane Filters 91Abhaya K. Bakshi, Rajendra Ghimire, Eric Sheridan, and Melanie Kuhn Microcapsules from Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Clay Particles 107Gisèle L. Lecomte-Nana, Volga Niknam, Anne Aimable, Marguerite Bienia, David Kpogbemabou, Jean-Charles Robert-Arnouil, and Asma Lajmi Author Index 125