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A New Quantitative Method to Predict the Bioactive Behavior of Silicate Glasses
Author(s) -
Aguiar Hélio,
Serra Julia,
González Pío
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05290.x
Subject(s) - silicate glass , silicate , bioactive glass , materials science , sol gel , mineralogy , function (biology) , biological system , chemical engineering , chemistry , nanotechnology , composite material , evolutionary biology , engineering , biology
In this article, theoretical models and experimental data coalesce to elucidate structural aspects of glasses produced using sol‐gel and melting methods in the SiO 2 – CaO – MgO – Na 2 O – P 2 O 5 system. The influence of the network connectivity on the in vitro bioactive behavior is disclosed. To achieve an accurate prediction of the bioactive response, an empirical method to determine the effective composition of the sol‐gel glasses is first proposed. Finally, the bioactivity limits of glasses as a function of their effective composition was established.