Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications

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Gujjala Raghavendra (National Inst of Tech Warangal, India) P. Syam Prasad (Nat Inst of Tech, Warangal)

Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications

Gujjala Raghavendra (National Inst of Tech Warangal, India), P. Syam Prasad (Nat Inst of Tech, Warangal), Dheeraj Kumar Gara (Jain Univ, Bengaluru)

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CRC Press
03 September 2025

Biomedical engineering; Biology, life sciences; Ceramics & glass technology; Metals technology & metallurgy; Materials science

Bioactive Glass Materials for Biological Applications envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing a new class of bioactive materials for versatile applications. It outlines the materials involved, bioactivity against bioinert materials, phase change materials, biomolecular nature, synthetic biodegradable polymers, and bioactive glasses. The processing techniques of the bioactive glasses for versatile applications are also covered. A comprehensive focus is on the review of additive manufacturing routes suitable for biological applications with the ability to print various bioactive materials whilst carrying living cells.

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Introduces bioactive glass materials and their nature aimed towards biological applications Covers how biological materials behave in vivo and in vitro for tailoring materials and sensitivity to the biological environment Explores relevant additive manufacturing platforms Reviews new chemistry and molecules for therapeutic and drug delivery applications alongside bone tissue and regenerative medicine Spotlights the future scope of bioactive glass nanoparticles, their limitations, and research focus areas

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in glasses and ceramics and biomaterials.

Edited by: Gujjala Raghavendra (National Inst of Tech Warangal India), P. Syam Prasad (Nat Inst of Tech, Warangal), Dheeraj Kumar Gara (Jain Univ, Bengaluru)
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032689852
ISBN 10: 1032689854
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 03 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction to Bioactive materials: Metals to non-metals. 2. Bioactive glasses for Biological Applications. 3. Role of nanomaterials in bioactive glasses. 4. Nature, processing and characterization of glass-ceramics for biological applications. 5. In vivo and invitro Behaviours of Bioactive Glass Materials. 6. Mechanosensing interactions of bioactive glasses. 7. Recent advances in additive manufacturing for printing biological tissues. 8. Biodegradable Polymers based Bioactive Glasses Nanocomposite. 9. Bioinspired synthesis based bioactive glasses. 10. Challenges for Industrial compliance and life cycle analysis of Bioactive glasses

Gujjala Raghavendra is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India. He has completed his M.Tech and Ph.D from NIT Rourkela. He has a research background in composite materials, FGMs, nano materials and bio glasses. P. Syam Prasad is working as a Professor in the Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India. He has received his MSc. (Physics), MPhil (Glass Science) and Ph.D. (Material sciences and Engineering) respectively. He has more than 18 years of combined teaching and research experience in the field of physical sciences and glass science, in particular. Dheeraj Kumar Gara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Jain University and PhD scholar from Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal. His area of interest lies in composite materials for aerospace and biomedical applications, energy storage devices, bioactive materials, functionally graded materials, shape memory alloys and nanoparticles.