"It covers all key points that a book in the field of biomaterials should include ... the authors have considered to include more application-related chapters ... I am convinced that Professor Seeram Ramakrishna and his co-author have delivered a top-class textbook."; Aldo R Boccaccini; Professor and Head of Institute of Biomaterials; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; "In the past two decades biomaterials have been witnessed to play an extraordinary role in safeguarding human healthcare by being used either for developing medical implants, therapeutic drugs or diagnostic agents. Many universities around the world have established biomaterials relevant biomedical programs to educate R&D talents in this field. Whilst an even more glorious future of biomaterials can be foreseen, there still lacks the introductory textbook to better serve educational purposes, especially in consideration of the necessity of integrating recent advances and future developing trends into the text. Therefore, the textbook initiated by Professor Seeram Ramakrishna and his colleagues with its wide content spectrum covering human disabilities and diseases, human body systems, tissue microstructures, biomaterial biocompatibility, classes of biomaterials, medical device regulation issues, surface engineering, tissue engineering / regenerative medicine, drug delivery and 3D printing, and so on, will be very useful to a wide readership not only to university undergraduate and graduate students but also to those researchers and professionals interested in acquiring or broadening knowledge in fundamental biomaterials science and engineering."; Yanzhong Zhang; Professor; Donghua University, China