Bioactive glasses and glass ceramics

Glass-based framework structures and implants

Porous glass samples with cells.
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Porous glass samples with cells.
Porous Vycor glass as cell substrate.
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Porous Vycor glass as cell substrate.
SEM image: a (stained) cell on a porous glass substrate.
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SEM image: a (stained) cell on a porous glass substrate.

Glass systems

  • Porous Vycor glasses (sodium borosilicate glasses)
  • Modified Vycor glasses (e.g. with iron)
  • Bioglass 45S5 (calcium phosphate silicate glasses)
  • Modified organic glasses (e.g. with strontium)
  • Bioglass ceramics (e.g. aluminosilicate glass ceramics containing fluorine and magnesium)

 

Shaping

  • Flakes
  • Powder | Particles
  • Tubes
  • Fibers
     

Application

  • 3D-scaffolding structures
  • Particulate cell growth substrates
  • Implants
     

Advantages

  • Free-form surfaces
  • Variable functional porosity
  • Adaptable chemical composition
  • Microstructurable
  • Biodegradable