The field of bone tissue engineering (BTE) focuses on the repair of bone defects that are too
large to be restored by the natural healing process. To that purpose, synthetic materials …

Since the discovery of silicate bioactive glass (BG) by Larry Hench in 1969, different classes
of BGs have been researched over decades mainly for bone regeneration. More recently …

The development of a guided tissue or bone regeneration (GTR/GBR) membrane with
excellent performance has been a major challenge in the biomedical field. The present …

Copper doped bioactive glasses have been reported as the potential biomaterial for
diseased or damaged bone repair and act as stimulants to new bones formation. In the …

Magnetic-fluorescent nanosystems have wide applications in the biomedical field due to
their dual ability of unique biomolecular fluorescent recognition and magnetic modes. In this …

Composite scaffolds of type 13-93 bioactive glass (13-93 BG) and sodium alginate (SA),
denoted 13-93 BG/SA, in mass ratios of 0: 4, 1: 4, 2: 4 and 4: 4 were prepared for bone …

Fibrous scaffolds have gained increasing attention in tissue engineering applications
because of their high porosity, and surface area. In the current study cerium or gallium …

Medical advances have increased life expectancy worldwide. At the same time, age-related
pathologies have increased. Bone injuries are a burden among the aging population and …

In the current state of the art, biomaterials are designed to resorb as they induce bio-activity
at the host site [1]. Essentially, cell attachment and proliferation platforms, conventionally …

Calcium silicate (CS) is envisioned as a good substrate for bone tissue engineering
applications because it can provide bioactive ions like Ca 2+ and Si 4+ to promote bone …