Bioactive glasses incorporating less-common ions to improve biological and physical properties

U Pantulap, M Arango-Ospina… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
Bioactive glasses (BGs) have been a focus of research for over five decades for several
biomedical applications. Although their use in bone substitution and bone tissue …

Bioactive glass—An extensive study of the preparation and coating methods

M Maximov, OC Maximov, L Craciun, D Ficai, A Ficai… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diseases or complications that are caused by bone tissue damage affect millions of patients
every year. Orthopedic and dental implants have become important treatment options for …

Nanocellulose/bioactive glass cryogels as scaffolds for bone regeneration

FV Ferreira, LP Souza, TMM Martins, JH Lopes… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A major challenge exists in the preparation of scaffolds for bone regeneration, namely,
achieving simultaneously bioactivity, biocompatibility, mechanical performance and simple …

Cancer inhibition and in vivo osteointegration and compatibility of gallium-doped bioactive glasses for osteosarcoma applications

L Souza, FV Ferreira, JH Lopes… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Traditional osteosarcoma therapies tend to focus solely on eradicating residual cancer cells
and often fail to promote local bone regeneration and even inhibit it due to lack of precise …

Impact of copper on in-vitro biomineralization, drug release efficacy and antimicrobial properties of bioactive glasses

S Chitra, P Bargavi, M Balasubramaniam… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study highlights the incorporation of copper in the bioactive glasses (BAG) network that
greatly influences the morphological, structural and biological properties. By increasing the …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-active glass coatings manufactured by thermal spray: A status report

J Henao, C Poblano-Salas, M Monsalve… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Superficial modification of implants via the incorporation of biocompatible coatings is an
attractive option in biomedicine because of the positive attributes associated with bioactive …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale analyses reveal native-like lamellar bone repair and near perfect bone-contact with porous strontium-loaded bioactive glass

H Autefage, F Allen, HM Tang, C Kallepitis… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
The efficient healing of critical-sized bone defects using synthetic biomaterial-based
strategies is promising but remains challenging as it requires the development of …

Ultrathin polymer fibers hybridized with bioactive ceramics: A review on fundamental pathways of electrospinning towards bone regeneration

FV Ferreira, CG Otoni, JH Lopes, LP de Souza… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrospun ultrathin polymer fibers hybridized with bioactive ceramics find use in many
biomedical applications due to their unique and versatile abilities to modulate structure …

[HTML][HTML] 3D-printed porous titanium scaffolds incorporating niobium for high bone regeneration capacity

H Liang, D Zhao, X Feng, L Ma, X Deng, C Han, Q Wei… - Materials & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biomimetic functionalization is a pressing need for orthopedic implants to achieve reinforced
osseointegration and accelerated osteogenesis, thereby obtaining a successful clinical …

Evaluation of effectiveness of 45S5 bioglass doped with niobium for repairing critical‐sized bone defect in in vitro and in vivo models

LPL de Souza, JH Lopes, FV Ferreira… - … Research Part A, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we investigated the biocompatibility of a bioactive sodium calcium silicate glass
containing 2.6 mol% Nb2O5 (denoted BGPN2. 6) and compare the results with the …