American Ceramic Society Bulletin

A report on the Indo-U.S. Joint Center for Biomaterials for Health Care
▲ Basu with Joo L. Ong (extreme right) and other faculty
and researchers of Department of Biomedical Engineering
at University of Texas at San Antonio.
group of Rajendra K. Borida, IIT Kanpur
successfully adapted a 3D-printing
approach to obtain porous high-density
polyethylene (a method that can be
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▲ National Metallurgical
Laboratory’s Suparbha
Nayar (extreme left), and
authors Webster and Basu
(in center wearing ties, left
and right, respectively)
with the researchers of
Brown University’s School
of Engineering.
extended to various material
systems). Based on the
composition formulated at IIT Kanpur,
Shaping Concepts created hybrid polymer–ceramic
biocomposites to explore
the commercial scale production of
complex-shaped materials.
Electrospun fibrous scaffolds have
been synthesized at IIT Kanpur and
tested for fine-scale compositional
analysis using Mauli Agrawal ‘s UTSA
research group’s X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy and micromechanicalproperty
evaluation facilities.
More information about the Center
for Biomaterials for Health Care
research activities is available on the
center’s website www.iitk.ac.in/indo_us_
biomaterials. More information about
the Indo–U.S. Science and Technology
Forum is available at www.indousstf.org.
About the authors
Bikramjit Basu is a professor in
the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, India
Thomas Webster is a professor in the
School of Engineering and Department
of Orthopedics, Brown University,
Providence, R.I. n
Call For Papers!
Abstract Deadline: September 19, 2011
Materials Challenges In
Alternative & Renewable Energy
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(Credit: Basu)