Jones / Clare Bio-Glasses

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-34646-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

This new work is dedicated to glasses and their variants whichcan be used as biomaterials to repair diseased and damaged tissues.Bio-glasses are superior to other biomaterials in manyapplications, such as healing bone by signaling stem cells tobecome bone cells.
Key features:
* First book on biomaterials to focus on bio-glasses
* Edited by a leading authority on bio-glasses trained by one ofits inventors, Dr Larry Hench
* Supported by the International Commission on Glass (ICG)
* Authored by members of the ICG Biomedical Glass Committee, withthe goal of creating a seamless textbook
* Written in an accessible style to facilitate rapid absorptionof information
* Covers all types of glasses, their properties and applications,and demonstrates how glass is an attractive improvement to currentprocedures
* Of interest to the biomedical as well as the materials sciencecommunity.
The book covers all types of glasses: traditional glasses,bioactive glasses, sol-gel glasses, phosphate glasses,glass-ceramics, composites and hybrids. Alongside discussion on howbio-glasses are made, their properties, and the reasons for theiruse, the authors also cover their applications in dentistry, boneregeneration and tissue engineering and cancer treatment. Its solidguidance describes the steps needed to take a new material fromconcept to clinic, covering the essentials of patenting, scale-up,quality assurance and FDA approval.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Julian

Clare, Alexis

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Julian Jones is a Senior Lecturer and Royal Academy ofEngineering and EPSRC Research Fellow at Imperial College,London. He has 40 peer reviewed publications in leadingjournals in the field of Biomaterials and has co-edited a leadingtextbook. His work has been recognised by award of a prestigiousPhilip Leverhulme Prize in 2007, for excellence in Engineering; theTissue and Cell Engineering Society (TCES) Early Investigator Awardin 2008; and the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals(IOM³) Silver Medal, for outstanding achievement inMaterials Science and international promotion of the subject. Hiswork has featured in the media with articles in the Daily Mail andDaily Telegraph and an interview on Radio 5 Live.
Dr Alexis Clare is Professor of Glass Science at theInamori School of Engineering, Alfred University, NY, USA.