Seminar of Photonics "Novel bioactive glass microfibers and scaffolds for supervised bone regeneratio" presented by

      Prof. J.M.F. Ferreira

w ramach projektu POLONEZ BIS 1 nr 536651 (BAGBONE), wspieranego przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Project information:

Team: J.M.F. Ferreira,^a,b* R. Buczyński^a, P. Gołębiewski^a H.R. Fernandes^b, Anuraag Gaddam^b, G.E. Stan^c, A.C. Popa^c 

^a Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics, al. Lotników 32/46, 02–668 Warsaw, Poland

^b CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Santiago University Campus, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

^c National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP), 077125 Magurele, Romania

Abstract

This POLONEZ BIS 1 Project aims at: (i) developing cotton-like microfibers from Alkali-free Bioactive Glasses (or from low Alkali-containing ones) with enough flexibility for being accommodated within bone defects and adapting to their shapes, thus acting as smart and easy tailor-made scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and bone regeneration; (ii) Verify experimentally in vitro the bone regeneration process by developing imaging bundles based on biodegradable glasses devoted to use for monitoring of the bone regeneration process in situ.

The Seminar will highlight the project's motivations, goals, and objectives. It will convey some relevant background on the state-of-the-art in the field, the shortcomings of the actual biomaterials and device scaffolds based on bioactive glasses, and will explain how our strategy and experimental approach will contribute to overcome some existing constraints, enlarge the available scaffolding options and increase the overall performance of the new smart solutions.

We will also report on the work plan and methodology adopted, the existing infrastructure & human resources available, and give an account of the accomplishment of the tasks, the results obtained so far, and its dissemination efforts in the form of scientific publications and participation in several international conferences.

Keywords: Alkali-free bioactive glasses; cotton-like microfibers; scaffolding; imaging bundles; supervised bone regeneration.

Acknowledgments: This research is part of project No. 2021/43/P/ST7/02418, co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945339.