Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing new class of bioactive materials for versatile applications. It outlines the materials involved, bioactivity against bioinert materials, phase change materials, biomolecular nature, synthetic biodegradable polymers, and bioactive glasses. The processing techniques of the bioactive glasses for versatile applications is also covered. A comprehensive focus is on the review of additive manufacturing routes suitable for biological applications with ability to print various bioactive materials whilst carrying living cells.
Features:
Introduces bioactive glass materials and their nature aimed towards biological applications.
Covers how biological materials behave in vivo and in vitro for tailoring materials and sensitivity with the biological environment.
Explores relevant additive manufacturing platforms.
Reviews new chemistry and molecules for therapeutic and drug delivery applications alongside bone tissue and regenerative medicine.
Spotlights future scope of Bioactive glass nanoparticles, their limitations, and research focus areas.
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in glasses and ceramics, and biomaterials.
This book envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing new class of bioactive materials for versatile applications. It outlines the materials involved, bioactivity against bioinert materials, phase change materials, biomolecular nature, synthetic biodegradable polymers, and bioactive glasses.
1. Introduction to Bioactive materials: Metals to non-metals.
2.
Bioactive glasses for Biological Applications.
3. Role of nanomaterials in
bioactive glasses.
4. Nature, processing and characterization of
glass-ceramics for biological applications.
5. In vivo and invitro Behaviours
of Bioactive Glass Materials.
6. Mechanosensing interactions of bioactive
glasses.
7. Recent advances in additive manufacturing for printing biological
tissues.
8. Biodegradable Polymers based Bioactive Glasses Nanocomposite.
9.
Bioinspired synthesis based bioactive glasses.
10. Challenges for Industrial
compliance and life cycle analysis of Bioactive glasses
Gujjala Raghavendra is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India. He has completed his M.Tech and Ph.D from NIT Rourkela. He has a research background in composite materials, FGMs, nano materials and bio glasses.
P. Syam Prasad is working as a Professor in the Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India. He has received his MSc. (Physics), MPhil (Glass Science) and Ph.D. (Material sciences and Engineering) respectively. He has more than 18 years of combined teaching and research experience in the field of physical sciences and glass science, in particular.
Dheeraj Kumar Gara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Jain University and PhD scholar from Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal. His area of interest lies in composite materials for aerospace and biomedical applications, energy storage devices, bioactive materials, functionally graded materials, shape memory alloys and nanoparticles.
