Bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics are well-proven potential biomaterials for bone-tissue
engineering applications because of their compositional flexibility. Many research groups …

The development of magnetic materials for interstitial hyperthermia treatment of cancer is an
ever evolving research field which provides new alternatives to antitumoral therapies. The …

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to study the interaction of two different
sized proteins, bovine serum albumin (BSA) and fibrinogen, with an aluminosilicate system …

After five decades of research on bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, these materials
became of considerable interest due to their revolutionary potential for numerous health …

Magnetic bioglass ceramics (MBC) are being considered for use as thermoseeds in
hyperthermia treatment of cancer. While the bioactivity in MBCs is attributed to the formation …

The sol–gel derived 50SiO 2⋅ 30CaO⋅ 10Fe 2 O 3⋅ 10Dy 2 O 3 system was subjected to
heat treatments at 500, 800 and 1200° C in order to obtain crystalline phases of interest for …

Glasses and glass ceramics with composition of 45SiO 2–25CaO–5P 2 O 5–10Na 2 O–(15−
x) MnO 2− xFe 2 O 3 (x= 0, 5, 10 and 15) were prepared by melt-quenching technique. In the …

Magnetic properties of glass ceramics derived from glasses with composition 41CaO·(52− x)
SiO2· 4P2O5· xFe2O3· 3Na2O (2⩽ x⩽ 10mol% iron oxide (Fe2O3)) are reported. Structural …

Glasses in the system xFe2O3·(100− x)[45ZnO· 55B2O3](0≤ x≤ 10mol%) have been
prepared by melting at 1200° C and rapidly cooling at room temperature. The obtained …

Implantable thermoseeds are synthesised from mixtures of a melt‐derived glass with
composition SiO2 (40)–CaO (40)–Fe2O3 (20)(mol%) and a sol–gel glass with composition …