Advances in Additive Manufacturing of Bioceramics
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 3488
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cellular glasses and glass-ceramics; glass sintering; glass and glass-ceramic matrix composites; polymer-derived ceramics; silicate bioceramics; phosphate ceramics; additive manufacturing of ceramics
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript (full paper, communication, or review paper) to the present Special Issue of Materials. This is fundamentally intended to expand concepts already outlined in the previous Special Issue “Bioceramics 2016”. In introducing that issue, we referred to the excellent definition of bioceramics, provided by Prof. Hench (L.L. Hench, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 74 (1991) 1487-510), as “specifically designed ceramics for the repair and reconstruction of diseased or damaged parts of the body”. The multiplicity of additive manufacturing methods undoubtedly offers significant opportunities of ‘specific design’, due the distinctive control of both micro- and macro-structures, in particular for the precise replication of a geometry directly from a 3D model, by adding material in a layer-by-layer approach. The exploration of the complex interconnection between formulations, structures (from nano- to millimiter scale), specific applications and additive manufacturing methods constitutes a general target for the Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Enrico BernardoProf. Jens Guenster
Dr. Andrea Zocca
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioglasses and bioceramics
- Porous scaffolds
- Additive manufacturing
- Ordered porosity
- Bone tissue engineering
- Cell proliferation
- Metal ion release
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