Adsorption is one of the oldest and extensively studied techniques for water and wastewater
treatment. As a surface phenomenon, adsorption efficiency relies heavily on the surface …

Surface functionalization has become of paramount importance and is considered a
fundamental tool for the development and design of countless devices and engineered …

In today's medicine world, alumina‐based biomaterials owing to their excellent
biomechanical, and biocompatibility properties play a key role in biomedical engineering …

One of the most important ideas ever produced by the application of materials science to the
medical field is the notion of biomaterials. The nanostructured biomaterials play a crucial …

In living organisms the biological hydroxyapatite is in constant contact with body fluids, such
as blood serum and saliva. Thus, dissolution, solubility and precipitation take place as part …

Recently, nanomaterials have been widely utilized in tissue engineering applications due to
their unique properties such as the high surface to volume ratio and diversity of morphology …

A biomaterial can be defined as a material intended to interface with biological systems to
evaluate, treat, augment or replace any tissue, organ or function of the body. Major problems …

Since Branemark's findings, titanium-based alloys have been widely used in implantology.
However, their success in dental implants is not known when considering the heterogenicity …

It is important to understand the cellular and molecular events that occur at the cell–material
interface of implants used for bone repair. The mechanisms involved in the initial stages of …

In this work, we studied the surface charge of α-alumina treated with carboxylic acids with
different carbon chain length. The results show the possibility of controlling surface charges …