Acknowledgements
This chapter reviews studies which were made together with the former
BAM working group “Biomaterials and Implants” headed by Dr. Georg
Berger and his co-workers Renate Gildenhaar and Erhard Lehmann. We thank
Andreas Hackbarth (BAM 9.1 “Service Loading Fatigue and Structural
Integrity”) for performing the mechanical stability tests. We are
thankful to Birgid Strauß and Sigrid Benemann (BAM 6.8 “Surface
Analysis and Interfacial Chemistry”) for the work with the SEM/EDX.
Robert Koter (BAM 6.4 “Nanomaterial Technologies”) kept the complex
femtosecond laser system alive.