Freeze-casting produces materials with complex, three-dimensional pore structures which
may be tuned during the solidification process. The range of potential applications of freeze …

Dental glass-ceramics (DGCs) are developed by controlled crystallization of oxide glasses
and form an important group of biomaterials used in modern dentistry. They are also of great …

Natural composites are often heterogeneous to fulfil functional demands. Manufacturing
analogous materials remains difficult, however, owing to the lack of adequate and easily …

Porous ceramics are now expected to be used for a wide variety of industrial applications
from filtration, absorption, catalysts and catalyst supports to lightweight structural …

The notion of mimicking natural structures in the synthesis of new structural materials has
generated enormous interest but has yielded few practical advances. Natural composites …

Macroporous ceramics with pore sizes from 400 nm to 4 mm and porosity within the range
20%–97% have been produced for a number of well‐established and emerging …

Freeze‐casting, the templating of porous structures by the solidification of a solvent, have
seen a great deal of efforts during the last few years. Of particular interest are the unique …

Tissue engineering is essentially a technique for imitating nature. Natural tissues consist of
three components: cells, signalling systems (eg growth factors) and extracellular matrix …

Although extensive efforts have been put into the development of porous scaffolds for bone
regeneration, with encouraging results, all porous materials have a common limitation: the …

Bone tissue engineering is the technology of healing bone defects in critical clinical
conditions using functional tissue-engineering substitutes. Hydroxyapatite (HAp), as a …