Green and safe in situ templating of bioactive glass scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
Author(s) -
Joséphine Lacroix,
Jonathan Lao,
Édouard Jallot
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of materials chemistry b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.316
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 2050-7518
pISSN - 2050-750X
DOI - 10.1039/c3tb00520h
Subject(s) - gelatin , materials science , in situ , bioactive glass , condensation , process (computing) , tissue engineering , scaffold , composite material , chemical engineering , biomedical engineering , organic chemistry , chemistry , computer science , engineering , physics , thermodynamics , operating system
This communication reports a new process for the synthesis of bioactive glass foams. This process is based on the use of gelatin as a template during the foaming of a sol, and the gelled gelatin template formed in situ maintains the foam structure during further condensation of the glass network.
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