Processing and characterization of bioglass reinforced hydroxyapatite composites

Calcium orthophosphate-based biocomposites and hybrid biomaterials

“…Such biocomposites are mainly prepared by the common ceramic processing techniques such as thermal treatment after kneading [743][744][745], powder slurry coating [746], and metal-sol mixing [747]. For example, HA was combined with Bioglass Ò (Novabone Products, Alachua, FL) [748,749] and with other glasses [750] to form glassceramics biocomposites. Other reinforcement materials for calcium orthophosphates are differentiated by either shape of the fillers, namely, particles [751,752], platelets [753,754], whiskers [484,755,756], fibers [757][758][759], or their chemical composition: zirconia and/or PSZ [250, 743-746, 755, 760-793], alumina [250,751,754,[793][794][795][796][797][798][799][800][801][802], titania [307,747,752,[803][804][805][806][807][808][809][810][811]…”

Comparison of Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Hydroxyapatite-Al2O3Composites with Commercial Inert Glass (CIG) Addition

“…The way of improving mechanical properties is to make composite materials [4]. The goal for development of such materials has been to achieve a combination of properties not achievable by any of the elemental materials acting alone [5].…”

“…Alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) has been used in orthopedic applications due to its excellent wear resistance, high hardness and high abrasion resistance [7,8]. Bioactive glasses and glass ceramics are highly bioactive biomaterials due to formation of a strong bonding between them and the neighboring bone [5,8]. The glass ceramic has superior mechanical properties, good biocompatibility, bioactivity and no toxicity, making it useful as a biomaterial in articial bone and dental implants [8].…”

Integrated Biomimemic Carbon Nanotube Composites for Biomedical Applications

“…No other material can compete with their outstanding combination of mechanical, thermal and electronic properties, which makes them an outstanding reinforcement material for composites (Goller et al, 2003;Cholpek et al, 2006;Price et al, 2003;Peigney, 2003). The ideal reinforcement material would impart mechanical integrity to the composite at high loadings, without diminishing its bioactivity.…”