Bio-glasses : an introduction /

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. Key features: * First book on bio...

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Otros Autores: Jones, Julian R., Clare, Alexis G.
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Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, c2012.
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  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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.