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This book envelopes the complexities, challenges, and advancement in developing 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
