Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications

Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing a new class of bioactive materials for versatile applications. It outlines the materials involved, bioactivity against bioinert materials, phase change materials, biomolecular nature, synthetic biodegradable polymers, and bioactive glasses. The processing techniques of the bioactive glasses for versatile applications are also covered. A comprehensive focus is on the review of additive manufacturing routes suitable for biological applications with the ability to print various bioactive materials whilst carrying living cells.

Features:

• Introduces bioactive glass materials and their nature aimed towards biological applications
• Covers how biological materials behave in vivo and in vitro for tailoring materials and sensitivity to the biological environment
• Explores relevant additive manufacturing platforms
• Reviews new chemistry and molecules for therapeutic and drug delivery applications alongside bone tissue and regenerative medicine
• Spotlights the future scope of bioactive glass nanoparticles, their limitations, and research focus areas

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in glasses and ceramics and biomaterials.