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Summary: 219
Addresses
*Department of Chemical Engineering and Princeton Materials
Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5263 USA.;
e-mail: iaksay@Princeton.edu
Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
76100, Israel; e-mail: cweiner@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science 1998,
3:219--220
Electronic identifier: 1359-0286-003-00219
© Current Chemistry ISSN 1359-0286
Synthetic biomaterials
The term `biomaterial' in itself does not convey to all a
specific connotation. Even a perusal of the topics of
reviews in this issue of Current Opinion in Solid State &
Materials Science, or in the issues from the last two years
devoted to biomaterials, begs the question of whether or
not this really is a field of research in its own right?
To focus the issue further, it is worth reflecting on whether
existing biopolymers, or for that matter titanium metal
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