I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 2 of the the recently-launched Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (www.elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm) has been published by Elsevier. All JMBBM articles can be accessed free-of-charge on ScienceDirect until September 2008 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17516161).

You are invited to present your research work on the mechanical behavior of nanocomposite materials (Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008 in Boston, MA). This topic will be focused on systematic mechanics experiments, modeling and simulations to solve new challenging mechanics problems such the effect of nanofiller agglomeration on the stiffness and strength reduction; interfacial stress transferring and interface strength evaluation at the nanoscale.  Deadline for abstract submission is March 3, 2008 (next Monday).

I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 1 (January 2008) of the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials is published in both print and online on ScienceDirect. This first issue contains three excellent review articles on bone and dentin, human enamel, and biocompatability of Ti-alloys as well as eight research papers.

The online version of all four issues in Volume 1 can be viewed free of charge until September 2008. For further details please see http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESJ001/mQNA874/uOPDV5/xS5EBB

Dean Eastbury, Publisher