Noboru Miyata

TL;DR: Three-point bending was used to characterise biomedical materials composed of glass-ceramic apatite-wollastonite (A-W) particulate reinforced polyethylene (PE) (denoted as AWPEX) and found that a transition in fracture behaviour from ductile to brittle behaviour was observed in samples containing between 30 and 40 vol% filler.

TL;DR: The hybrids with PDMS/(TEOS + TiPT) showed fairly high apatite-forming ability, high extensibilities, and Young's moduli almost equal to those of the human cancellous bones, which may be useful as bone-repairing materials.

TL;DR: In this article, a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-CaO-SiO2-TiO2 hybrid with different PDMS contents was synthesized by the sol-gel method, and their apatite-forming ability in simulated body fluid (SBF) and mechanical properties were investigated.

TL;DR: The synthesis of the hybrids exhibiting both high apatite-forming ability and high extensibility can be achieved by selecting suitable CaO and Si-PTMO contents by hydrolysis and polycondensation.

TL;DR: The organic-inorganic hybrids exhibiting both fairly high apatite-forming ability and high capability for deformation were obtained and may be useful as new kind of bioactive bone-repairing materials.