Recent Advances in Bioceramics and Bioactive Glasses

Dear Colleagues,

Research on bioceramics and bioactive glasses soared in the 1970s when bioglass was discovered by Larry Hench and calcium phosphates proposed for a broad range of orthopedic and dental applications with a research history back to 1920. Since then, various types and forms of bioceramics have paved their way to clinical applications, for example in arthroplasty, spine fusion, cranioplasty, periodontal repair, middle ear replacement, pulp capping and general bone defect repair or even in toothpastes. Nonetheless, these achievements have been somewhat overshadowed by advances in the field of biocompatible polymers due to their diversity in composition, surface functionalization and processing techniques. Over last five years, significant progress has been made in the field of bioceramics, in particular in regenerative medicine, nanomedicine, and surface coating of implants. This encompasses a wide range of research areas: from synthesis of ionic substitute inorganics, nanoparticles, and drug/gene/protein carriers, to developing advanced manufacturing techniques to fabricate hard/soft tissue substitutes or cements.

This Special Issue, “Recent Advances in Bioceramics and Bioactive Glasses”, provides a multidisciplinary forum for original research articles as well as critical reviews and perspectives related to current advances and innovations in the field of bioceramics from academia and industry. Additionally, this issue targets recent reports on the interaction of bioceramics in particulate- monolith- or scaffold-form with cells, proteins and tissues as well as the mechanisms in which they dictate the particular response.

Dr. Iman Roohani
Guest Editor

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• New composition/ion substituted bioceramics
• Advanced characterization techniques
• Advance manufacturing techniques to fabricate synthetic tissue substitutes
• Bioceramics in regenerative medicine
• Bioceramics as drug/gene/protein carriers
• Novel surface functionalization method for bioceramics to conjugate biomolecules
• New implant surface modification strategies
• Synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles
• Bioceramics and biomedical polymer composites
• Interaction of bioceramics with proteins, cells and tissues (in vitro and in vivo)