Hydrogel/bioactive glass composites for bone regeneration applications: Synthesis and characterisation

Mechanical characteristic and biological behaviour of implanted and restorative bioglasses used in medicine and dentistry: A systematic review

“…Commonly, it is used to test the tensile strength, compressive strength and elastic modulus. Most of these studies performed at least two of the aforementioned tests, giving broader information about the properties; compressive strength and elastic modulus are the main properties examined [40][41][42][43][44]. Only in the study presented by Simpson et al [46], were all three mechanical properties measured.…”

“…However, some authors investigated more than one test to provide a more complete characterization (Table 1). In fact, two properties are studied in 8 articles [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] and in one case three properties have been reported [46].…”

“…Immersion in simulated body fluid (SBF) [38,39,[41][42][43][44][45][46]49,52,55,59] Immersion in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) [48] Immersion in tris buffer [58] None [40,47,50,51,53,54,56,57] …”

“…Improved biocompatibility for bioglass containing Ca [59] None None None [39][40][41][44][45][46][47]50,53,[56][57][58] time-points. Overall, the Elastic modulus has been studied in thirteen articles and can be obtained using all the methods described above; it is a key property for every kind of material.…”

Synthesis of new photoactive urethane carbohydrates and their behavior in UV or femtosecond laser-induced two-photon polymerization

“…[5][6][7] Moreover, the carbohydrate-bearing polymers, especially synthetic polymers with pendant sugar moieties (known as glycopolymers), have found applications mostly in biomedicine and as biomaterials. [8][9][10][11] Therefore, there have been many studies on the preparation of glycopolymers with a large diversity of architectures, [12][13][14][15] using different approaches like conventional and controlled radical polymerization, living anionic polymerization, cyanoxyl-mediated polymerization, ring opening polymerization and post-polymerization modification. A classic example is the obtaining of methacrylic glycomonomers with hydroxyl protected groups, such as 3-O-methacryloyl-1,2:3,4-di-O-isopropylidene-d-galactopyranose, [16][17][18] but the proposed methods are cumbersome and involve toxic solvents.…”