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Bio-glasses : an introduction / [edited by] Julian Jones and Alexis G. Clare. - Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2012. - xii, 289 pages, [20] leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The unique nature of glass / Alexis G. Clare -- Melt derived bioactive glass / Matthew D. O'Donnell -- Sol-gel derived glasses for medicine / Julian R. Jones -- Phosphate glasses / Delia S. Brauer -- The structure of bioactive glasses and their surfaces / Alastair N. Cormack -- Bioactive borate glasses / Steven B. Jung -- Glass-ceramics / Wolfram H'land -- Bioactive glass- and glass-ceramic coatings / Enrica Vern -- Composites containing bioactive glass / Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qi-Zhi Chen -- Inorganic-organic sol-gel hybrids / Yuki Shirosaki ... [et al.] -- Dental applications of glasses / Leena Hupa and Antti Yli-Urpo -- Bioactive glass as synthetic bone grafts and scaffolds for tissue engineering / Julian R. Jones -- Glasses for radiotherapy / Delbert E. Day.

ISBN: 9781118346464 (ePub) 9781118346440 (MobiPocket) 9781118346471 ( Adobe PDF)

LCCN: 2012012156

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Biocompatible Materials.
Glass.
Drug Delivery Systems.
Regeneration.
Tissue Scaffolds.

LC Class. No.: QT 37

Dewey Class. No.: 610.28 / B.