The Structure of Bioactive Glasses and Their Surfaces

Bio-Glasses: An Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 65-74

  Cormack, Alastair N ^a  

^a Alfred University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic structure of glass, bioactivity and degradation rate; Bioactive glasses, and fragmented network structure; Computer simulations, atomic scale picture; Defect structural features; Silica network structure, a random network; Sodium and calcium cation distribution; Structure of bioactive glasses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870239707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118346457.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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