Understanding the properties of biologically active glassy materials for tissue engineering through modelling and experiment

Bioactive glasses (BGs) are amorphous materials exhibiting biocompatibility properties,gaining great interest as biomaterials for regenerative medicine. This work comprises twoparts. First, the bioactivity properties that fluoridated phosphate-based bioactive glasses(F-PBGs) exhibit once implanted, for dental repair applications, was studied. Second,the experimental design of cardiac patches, containing 45S5 bioactive glasses for cardiactissue engineering, was undertaken. [Continues.]