Abstract
The series of International Symposia on Surface and Interface of Biomaterials was conceived in 2005 and the first conference in this series (SIB2007) was successfully held in Chengdu, People's Republic of China, in October 2007. At SIB2007, after competitive bidding, Hong Kong was chosen to be the venue for the Second International Symposium on Surface and Interface of Biomaterials (ISSIB-II) and I took up the role of Chairman and hence the task of organizing the conference which ultimately took place in Hong Kong on 4–6 January 2010. ISSIB-II received nearly 200 abstracts (not including plenary and keynote lectures) from 17 countries around the world, and more than 150 registered delegates attended. After review, 166 papers were accepted by the ISSIB-II scientific committee. The papers presented at ISSIB-II covered the following areas: biomedical polymers and their surface modification, bioceramics, metallic biomaterials, biomedical composites, dental materials, nanoparticles and quantum dots in medicine, biosensors, materials and systems for the delivery of therapeutic agents, tissue engineering scaffolds and their applications, electrospinning of fibrous structures for medical applications, surface patterning and micro- and nano-fabrication, surface modification of Ti and Ti-based alloys, materials and their surface modification for blood-contacting medical devices, biomolecules and cells at the surface or interface and analysis of biomaterial surface and interface. The symposium aimed to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, clinicians and medical device manufacturers to present and discuss the latest scientific findings and technological developments in areas concerning surface and interface of biomaterials. And it succeeded in achieving this goal. The Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The University of Hong Kong generously provided sponsorship.
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