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The prerequisite for glasses and glass-ceramics to bond to living bone is the formation of biologically active bone-like apatite on their surfaces. It has been shown that even a pure silica gel forms the bone-like apatite on its surface in a simulated body fluid. In the present study, pore structure of silica gels prepared by hydrolysis and polycondensation of tetraethoxysilane in an aqueous solution containing polyethylene glycol was modified by 1M HNO3, and 0.1M and 1M NH4OH solution treatments. The three kinds of resultant gels all contained large amounts of silanol groups and trisiloxane rings, but differ greatly in pore structure of nanometre pore size. Irrespective of these differences, all the gels formed the bone-like apatite on their surface in the simulated body fluid. It was speculated that a certain type of structural unit of silanol groups, which is easily formed in the presence of the polyethylene glycol, is effective for the apatite formation. © 1998 Chapman & Hall
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Cho, S.B., Miyaji, F., Kokubo, T. et al. Apatite formation on silica gel in simulated body fluid: effects of structural modification with solvent-exchange. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 9, 279–284 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008808828567
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