Bioactive glass-ceramics containing fluorapatite, xonotlite, cuspidine and wollastonite form apatite faster than their corresponding glasses

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Crystallisation of bioactive glasses has been claimed to negatively affect the ion release from bioactive glasses. Here, we compare ion release and mineralisation in Tris-HCl buffer solution for a series of glass-ceramics and their parent glasses in the system SiO2-CaO-P2O5-CaF2. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction analysis of glass-ceramic degradation, including quantification of crystal fractions by full pattern refinement, show that the glass-ceramics precipitated apatite faster than the corresponding glasses, in agreement with faster ion release from the glass-ceramics. Imaging by transmission electron microscopy and X-ray nano-computed tomography suggest that this accelerated degradation may be caused by the presence of nano-sized channels along the internal crystal/glassy matrix interfaces. In addition, the presence of crystalline fluorapatite in the glass-ceramics facilitated apatite nucleation and crystallisation during immersion. These results suggest that the popular view of bioactive glass crystallisation being a disadvantage for degradation, apatite formation and, subsequently, bioactivity may depend on the actual system study and, thus, has to be reconsidered.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

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Scientific reports - 14(2024), 1 vom: 18. Feb., Seite 3997

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Englisch

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Kirste, Gloria [VerfasserIn]
Contreras Jaimes, Altair [VerfasserIn]
de Pablos-Martín, Araceli [VerfasserIn]
de Souza E Silva, Juliana Martins [VerfasserIn]
Massera, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Hill, Robert G [VerfasserIn]
Brauer, Delia S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 21.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41598-024-54228-0

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NLM368596079