Diffusion and surface alloying of gradient nanostructured metals

• Zhenbo Wang and
• Ke Lu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 547–560, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.59

• amorphous titania. Furthermore, the formed titania showed an increased crystallinity and retained the nanoporous structure even after calcination at 600 °C [94]. These works indicated the possibility to improve the bioactivity of titanium bone implants and to accelerate osseointegration by introducing a

• temperatures on materials with a preformed GNS surface layer than those of the conventional treatments on CG samples, such as nitriding, boronizing, and aluminizing. In addition, some other diffusion-related properties, such as bonding strength of coating on substrate, bioactivity of Ti and Ti alloys, and

3D printing of mineral–polymer bone substitutes based on sodium alginate and calcium phosphate

• Aleksey A. Egorov,
• Alexander Yu. Fedotov,
• Anton V. Mironov,
• Vladimir S. Komlev,
• Vladimir K. Popov and
• Yury V. Zobkov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1794–1799, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.172

• strategies to improve the bioactivity of the polymer-based materials is to incorporate some inorganic phase, such as CP particles, into their structure [9][10][11]. The 3D printing of these materials is usually achieved by simple ink jet processing of a mechanical mixture of starting ingredients (mineral

Surface-enhanced infrared absorption studies towards a new optical biosensor

• Lothar Leidner,
• Julia Stäb,
• Jennifer T. Adam and
• Günter Gauglitz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1736–1742, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.166

• without the use of labels. They lack the disadvantages of fluorescence technologies such as photodegradation, loss of bioactivity or costs of labeling. An early overview in the field of direct optical sensors, including optical principles and assay formats for selective detection, is given in [3] and

Surface coating affects behavior of metallic nanoparticles in a biological environment

• Darija Domazet Jurašin,
• Marija Ćurlin,
• Ivona Capjak,
• Tea Crnković,
• Marija Lovrić,
• Michal Babič,
• Daniel Horák,
• Ivana Vinković Vrček and
• Srećko Gajović

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 246–262, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.23

• colloidal stability and behavior of metallic NPs in biological environment as presented in Table 4. Behavior of NPs in blood and blood plasma The implications of the PC on the bioactivity nanomaterials in vivo are enormous. Biological fluids are complex environments in which it is difficult even to predict

Nanoinformatics for environmental health and biomedicine

• Rong Liu and
• Yoram Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2449–2451, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.253

• the latest related developments/applications for environmental health and biomedicine. In this Thematic Series, recent advances in the development of databases are reported. These databases represent a collection of valuable data related to the physicochemical properties and bioactivity of

Electrochemical coating of dental implants with anodic porous titania for enhanced osteointegration

• Amirreza Shayganpour,
• Alberto Rebaudi,
• Pierpaolo Cortella,
• Alberto Diaspro and
• Marco Salerno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2183–2192, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.224

• anodization of Ti by a different group [31]. The spontaneous phosphate incorporation occurring during anodization in H3PO4 is not the only form of doping that may be exploited in order to increase the possible bioactivity of the APT coating. In fact, one may explore the possibility to add different chemical

• of the fabricated APT coating with phosphate ions occurs spontaneously, which can be already considered as a biofunctionalization of the nanoporous surface. Further in situ functionalization aiming at improved bioactivity of the nanoporous surfaces may be obtained by using additive species in the

Morphological characterization of fullerene–androsterone conjugates

• Alberto Ruiz,
• Margarita Suárez,
• Nazario Martin,
• Fernando Albericio and
• Hortensia Rodríguez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 374–379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.43

• , improving its solubility and biocompatibility, thus facilitating further bioactivity studies [12]. The morphology and aggregation properties of some fullerene derivatives have been previously established. Brettreich et al., demonstrated that hexa-adducts of [60]fullerene functionalized with both hydrophobic

Nanoglasses: a new kind of noncrystalline materials

• Herbert Gleiter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 517–533, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.61

• microstructure of nanoglasses on the bioactivity, hierarchically structured layers of Ti34Zr14Cu22Pd30 metallic nanoglass were created by magnetron sputtering. The cell proliferation on the surfaces of these materials was studied by seeding ten thousand osteoblasts on the free surface of the Ti34Zr14Cu22Pd30

• roughness of the Ti34Zr14Cu22Pd30 nanoglass. Both sides of the Ti34Zr14Cu22Pd30 glassy ribbons had a roughness that was comparable to the one of the Ti34Zr14Cu22Pd30 nanoglass. Despite the comparable roughness, the ribbons displayed a lower bioactivity than the nanoglass and the Ti control specimen. The