Bio-glasses : an introduction / edited by Julian Jones, Alexis G. Clare.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Julian R.

Clare, Alexis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomedical materials.

Glass.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 biomaterials to focus on bio-glassesEdited by a leading authority on bio-glasses trained by one of its inventors, Dr Larry HenchSupported by the International Commission on Glass (ICG)Authored by members of the ICG Biomedical Glass Committee, with

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-76874-6

9786613679512

1-118-34644-0

1-118-34645-9

1-118-34647-5

OCLC:

781432689