Schuhladen K, Boccaccini AR (2020)
Publication Type: Authored book
Publication year: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780081029992
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102999-2.00015-6
Bioactive glass (BG), a typical example for a third-generation biomaterial, shows great success in the regeneration, repair, and replacement of damaged tissue, due its ability to release therapeutic ions and to form an apatite layer during dissolution in physiological fluids. Since the development of the first bioactive glass 50years ago, different glass compositions and fabrication methods have led to the development of a wide variety of bioactive glasses, some of them being highly relevant for tissue engineering applications, both hard and soft tissues. With ongoing development of advanced fabrication methods, a reduction in bioactive glass dimensions (e.g., particle size) from macroscopic to nanosize has been achieved. This chapter presents a summary of achievements of 50years of research on bioactive glasses for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications highlighting the three kinds of bioactive glasses linking applications in the field, namely, melt-derived, sol-gel-derived, and mesoporous BGs.
APA:
Schuhladen, K., & Boccaccini, A.R. (2020). Bioactive glass variants for tissue engineering: From the macro- to the nanoscale. Elsevier.
MLA:
Schuhladen, Katharina, and Aldo R. Boccaccini. Bioactive glass variants for tissue engineering: From the macro- to the nanoscale. Elsevier, 2020.
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