Bioactive glass in tissue engineering

Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering

In materials science, the ability to develop porous constructs with high mechanical strength is important for a broad range of emerging applications, including filters, catalyst support, and tissue engineering scaffolds. Particularly for orthopedic surgery, the regeneration of large bone defects in load-bearing limbs remains a challenging problem that require scaffolds that combine the strength...

Bioactive Glass and Glass-Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering

Traditionally, bioactive glasses have been used to fill and restore bone defects. More recently, this category of biomaterials has become an emerging research field for bone tissue engineering applications. Here, we review and discuss current knowledge on porous bone tissue engineering scaffolds on the basis of melt-derived bioactive silicate glass compositions and relevant composite structures...

Bioactive Glass in Tissue Engineering: Progress and Challenges

Bioactive Glass in Tissue Engineering: Progress and Challenges

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com only osteoconductivity but also osteoinductivity, has attracted much interests in the field of bone tissue engineering but not only. Indeed, the typical silicate bioactive glasses demonstrated to bond to bone more efficiently than any other synthetic materials [1]. However, it was rapidly found that the highly disrupted silica network of bioactive g...

Submicron bioactive glass tubes for bone tissue engineering.

Herein we describe a method to fabricate submicron bioactive glass tubes using sol-gel and coaxial electrospinning techniques for applications in bone tissue engineering. Heavy mineral oil and gel solution were delivered by two independent syringe pumps during the coaxial electrospinning process. Subsequently, submicron bioactive glass tubes were obtained by removal of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) a...