Preparation and In Vitro Behavior of Bioactive Glasses from Bovine Waste Resource

摘要

Preparation of bioactive glasses was attempted utilizing waste bovine as raw resource. Bioactive and biodegradable batch compositions in the Na{sub}2O-CaO-SiO{sub}2 system were included with calcined bovine, whose phase was high-purity oxy-hydroxyapatite. Bovine inclusion as large as 40 mass% was shown to present highly bioactive glasses; bovine in the bioactive and biodegradable compositions presented glasses with controlled bioactivity and biodegradability, respectively. These indicate not only a plenty biological resource of bio-interactive materials, but also an alternative strategy for bioactive glasses with multi-functional applications.