Daniela Brazete

TL;DR: A first general appraisal of the scientific output in the interrelated areas of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, scaffolds, implant coatings, and tissue engineering is presented to provide knowledge-based tools towards guiding young researchers in the design of new bioactive glass compositions, taking into account the desired functional properties.

TL;DR: In this article, structural and optical properties of antimony-containing sodium borate glasses were studied and their ultrafast third-order nonlinear optical properties have been evaluated using Z-scan measu...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of composition of the starting material, cooling rates and the importance of quenching for maintaining α-TCP purity in the formulation of apatitic calcium phosphate based bone cements.

TL;DR: Doping with suitable doses of therapeutic ions is a good strategy towards transposing the bone graft materials to biomedical applications in humans, supporting the therapeutic effects exerted by the doping elements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of transition metal ions (Cu, Co, Mn, Fe) on the structure and bioactivity of bioactive glasses was investigated by using molecular EXAFS in combination with Raman spectroscopy.