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Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 26th Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (BIOCERAMICS 26), November 6-8, 2014, Barcelona, Spain. The 76 papers are grouped as follows: I. Biostable Ceramics and Tough Ceramics; II. Glasses and Glass-ceramics; III. Calcium Phosphates; IV. Cements; V. Composites and Hybrid Materials; VI. Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Ceramics; VII. Coatings, Surface Engineering and Interfaces; VIII. Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics and Composites; IX. Scaffolds; X. Ceramics for Drug Delivery; XI. Cell-Material Interactions; XII. Preclinical Models: Animal Studies; XIII. Clinical Applications Keyword: Bioceramcis, Additive manufacturing of ceramics and composites; Biostable ceramics and tough ceramics; Calcium phosphates; Cell-material interactions; Cements; Ceramics for drug delivery; Clinical applications; Coatings, surface engineering and interfaces; Composites and hybrid materials; Glasses and glass-ceramics; Nanoparticles and nanostructured ceramics; Preclinical models: animal studies; Scaffolds This volume contains the proceedings of the 26th International Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2014. The 76 papers highlight advances in the study of the following: bioceramics and their application to medicine, focusing on biostable ceramics and tough ceramics; glasses and glass-ceramics; calcium phosphates; cements; composites and hybrid materials; nanoparticles and nanostructured ceramics; coatings, surface engineering, and interfaces; additive manufacturing of ceramics and composites; scaffolds; ceramics for drug delivery; cell-material interactions; preclinical models using animal studies; and clinical applications. Contributors work in medicine, engineering, biomaterials, and other fields around the world. -- Biomaterials-- Engineering -- Ceramics-- Materials science -- Ceramics-- Nanomateri