Biomaterial-based scaffolds are important cues in tissue engineering (TE) applications.
Recent advances in TE have led to the development of suitable scaffold architecture for …

Biomaterials and tissue engineering scaffolds play a central role to repair bone defects.
Although ceramic derivatives have been historically used to repair bone, hybrid materials …

The present work employed the finite element model (FEM) to predict the influence of
successive increases in borate (B 2 O 3) contents, from 0 to 25 mol%, on mechanical …

Conventional composites often do not represent true synergy of their constituent materials.
This is particularly evident in biomaterial applications where devices must interact with cells …

Technological advances have provided surgeons with a wide range of biomaterials. Yet
improvements are still to be made, especially for large bone defect treatment. Biomaterial …

Bioactive glass-based organic/inorganic hybrids are a family of materials holding great
promise in the biomedical field. Developed from bioactive glasses following recent …

This study investigated the fabrication and modification of gelatin microspheres via single
emulsion method and silane coupling agents, respectively. Herein, the influence of oil phase …

Calcium is an essential component of osteogenesis and is often required for imparting
significant bioactivity to synthetic bone substitutes and, in particular, silicate-based materials …

Poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS)–SiO2–CaO-based hybrid materials prepared by sol–gel
have proved to be very promising materials for tissue engineering applications and drug …

Bioactive glasses (BG) bond to bone and stimulate bone regeneration, but they are brittle.
Inorganicorganic hybrids appear as promising bone substitutes since they associate the …