Tadashi Kokubo & Hiroaki
Takadama talk with ScienceWatch.com and answer a few
questions about this month's Emerging Research Front Paper in
the field of Materials Science. The authors have also sent
along images of their work.
Article: How useful is SBF in predicting in vivo bone
bioactivity?
Transmission electron micrograph of interface between glass-ceramic
A–W and rat tibia. The glass-ceramic formed an apatite on its surface
in the living body and bonded to the bone through the apatite layer.
FIGURE 2:
FIGURE 2 DESCRIPTION:
Scanning electron micrograph of apatite formed on silica gel (left) and
titania gel (right) in SBF.
FIGURE 3:
FIGURE 3 DESCRIPTION:
Transmission electron micrograph of cross section of apatite layer formed
on glass-ceramic A–W in SBF.