Bio-glasses : an introduction /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Jones, Julian R., Clare, Alexis
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2012.
• Θέματα: Biomedical materials.; Glass.; Biocompatible Materials.; Drug Delivery Systems.; Regeneration.; Tissue Scaffolds.; MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > Medical Technology.; MEDICAL > Biotechnology.; MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.; MEDICAL > Lasers in Medicine.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Biomedical.; Electronic books.

This new work is dedicated to glasses and their variants which can be used as biomaterials to repair diseased and damaged tissues. Bio-glasses are superior to other biomaterials in many applications, such as healing bone by signaling stem cells to become bone cells.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The unique nature of glass / Alexis G. Clare
• Melt derived bioactive glass / Matthew D. O'Donnell
• Sol-gel derived glasses for medicine / Julian R. Jones
• Phosphate glasses / Delia S. Brauer
• The structure of bioactive glasses and their surfaces / Alastair N. Cormack
• Bioactive borate glasses / Steven B. Jung
• Glass-ceramics / Wolfram H'land
• Bioactive glass- and glass-ceramic coatings / Enrica Vern
• Composites containing bioactive glass / Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qi-Zhi Chen
• Inorganic-organic sol-gel hybrids / Yuki Shirosaki [and others]
• Dental applications of glasses / Leena Hupa and Antti Yli-Urpo
• Bioactive glass as synthetic bone grafts and scaffolds for tissue engineering / Julian R. Jones
• Glasses for radiotherapy / Delbert E. Day.