Smart Biomaterials

This book provides comprehensive coverage of smart biomaterials and their potential applications, a field that is developing at a very rapid pace. Because smart biomaterials are an emerging class of biomaterials that respond to small changes in external s

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Biomaterials

NIMS Monographs

Series editor Naoki OHASHI

Editorial Board Takahito OHMURA Yoshitaka TATEYAMA Takashi TANIGUCHI Kazuya TERABE Masanobu NAITO Nobutaka HANAGATA Kenjiro MIYANO

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11599

The NIMS Monographs are published by the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a leading public research institute in materials science in Japan, in collaboration with Springer. The series present research results achieved by NIMS researchers through their studies on materials science as well as current scientific and technological trends in those research fields. These monographs provide readers up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge about fundamental theories and principles of materials science as well as practical technological knowledge about materials synthesis and applications. With their practical case studies the monographs in this series will be particularly useful to newcomers to the field of materials science and to scientists and engineers working in universities, industrial research laboratories, and public research institutes. These monographs will be also available for textbooks for graduate students. National Institute for Materials Science http://www.nims.go.jp/

Mitsuhiro Ebara · Yohei Kotsuchibashi Ravin Narain · Naokazu Idota · Young-Jin Kim John M. Hoffman · Koichiro Uto · Takao Aoyagi

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Mitsuhiro Ebara Yohei Kotsuchibashi Koichiro Uto Takao Aoyagi National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba Japan Ravin Narain University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada

Young-Jin Kim The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan John M. Hoffman Stratos Genomics Seattle,WA USA

Naokazu Idota Waseda University Tokyo Japan

ISSN  2197-8891 ISSN  2197-9502  (electronic) ISBN 978-4-431-54399-2 ISBN 978-4-431-54400-5  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-54400-5 Springer Tokyo Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014935978 © National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. Published by Springer Japan 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan (NIMS), whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of applicable copyright laws and applicable treaties, and permission for use must always be obtained from NIMS. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective copyri