TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Julian R. AU - Clare,Alexis TI - Bio-glasses: an introduction SN - 9781118346464 AV - QT37 U1 - 610.28 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - Wiley KW - Biomedical materials KW - Glass KW - Biocompatible Materials KW - Drug Delivery Systems KW - Regeneration KW - Tissue Scaffolds KW - MEDICAL KW - Allied Health Services KW - Medical Technology KW - bisacsh KW - Biotechnology KW - Family & General Practice KW - Lasers in Medicine KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING KW - Biomedical KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 [and others] -- 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 N2 - This new work is dedicated to glasses and their variants which can be used as biomaterials to repair diseased and damaged tissues. Bio-glasses are superior to other biomaterials in many applications, such as healing bone by signaling stem cells to become bone cells UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118346457 ER -