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What Can We Learn from Atomistic Simulations of Bioactive Glasses?

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In the last decades, most experimental efforts have been devoted to design bioactive glasses (please consult the Editor’s note in order to clarify the usage of the terms bioglass, bioactive glass and biocompatible glasses) with enhanced biological and mechanical properties by adding specific ions to known bioactive compositions. Concurrently, computational research has been focused to the understanding of the relationships between bioactivity and composition by rationalization of the role of the doping ions. Thus, a deep knowledge of the structural organization of the constituent atoms of the bioactive glasses has been gained by the employment of ab initio and classical molecular dynamics simulations techniques. This chapter reviews the recent successes in this field by presenting, in a concise way, the structure–properties relationships of silicate, phospho-silicate and phosphate glasses with potential bioactive properties.

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Pedone, A., Menziani, M.C. (2016). What Can We Learn from Atomistic Simulations of Bioactive Glasses?. In: Marchi, J. (eds) Biocompatible Glasses. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44249-5_5

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