Bioactive glass and glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3867-3910

  Gerhardt, Lutz Christian ^a   Boccaccini, Aldo R ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Bioactive glasses; Bone; Composites; Glass ceramics; Ion release; Melt derived glasses; Osteogenesis; Scaffolds; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING; FABRICATION METHOD; ION RELEASE; MELT-DERIVED GLASS; OSTEOGENESIS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP;

BONE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; GLASS CERAMICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SCAFFOLDS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SECONDARY BATTERIES; SILICATES; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOACTIVE GLASS;

EID: 79951578643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3073867     Document Type: Article

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