Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Larry Hench published in Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 52, Issue 15

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of Materials Science. Volume
52 Number 15 is
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Special Issue in Honor of Larry Hench

Guest editors’ preface

Aldo R. Boccaccini, Michael Fenn, Julian R. Jones, Toshihiro
Kasuga, M. Grant Norton, Mohammed N. Rahaman, Enrica Verné &
Edgar D. Zanotto

A guided walk through Larry Hench’s monumental discoveries

Maziar Montazerian & Edgar D. Zanotto

Structure, thermal properties, dissolution behaviour and
biomedical applications of phosphate glasses and fibres: a
review

Nusrat Sharmin & Chris D. Rudd

Tuning mesoporous silica dissolution in physiological
environments: a review

Juan L. Paris, Montserrat Colilla, Isabel Izquierdo-Barba,
Miguel Manzano & María Vallet-Regí

Bioactive glass-containing cranial implants: an overview

Pekka K. Vallittu

Angiogenic potential of boron-containing bioactive glasses: in
vitro study

P. Balasubramanian, L. Hupa, B. Jokic, R. Detsch, A. Grünewald &
Aldo R. Boccaccini

Effects of boron oxide substitution on the structure and
bioactivity of SrO-containing bioactive glasses

Xiaonan Lu, Lu Deng, Po-Hsuen Kuo, Mengguo Ren, Ian Buterbaugh &
Jincheng Du

Bivalent cationic ions doped bioactive glasses: the influence of
magnesium, zinc, strontium and copper on the physical and
biological properties

Ilaria Cacciotti

Optimisation of lithium-substituted bioactive glasses to tailor
cell response for hard tissue repair

Jeison Gabriel da Silva, Rebecca Babb, Christoph Salzlechner,
Paul T. Sharpe, Delia S. Brauer & Eileen Gentleman

Cerium-doped bioactive 45S5 glasses: spectroscopic, redox,
bioactivity and biocatalytic properties

Valentina Nicolini, Gianluca Malavasi, Ledi Menabue, Gigliola
Lusvardi, Francesco Benedetti, Sergio Valeri & Paola Luches

Synthesis and dissolution behaviour of CaO/SrO-containing
sol–gel-derived 58S glasses

Anthony L. B. Maçon, Sungho Lee, Gowsihan Poologasundarampillai,
Toshihiro Kasuga & Julian R. Jones

Influence of strontium for calcium substitution on the
glass–ceramic network and biomimetic behavior in the ternary
system SiO₂–CaO–MgO

N. S. Dessou, G. S. Theodorou, N. Kantiranis, L. Papadopoulou,
T. Zorba, D. Patsiaoura, E. Kontonasaki, K. Chrysaffis, P.
Koidis & K. M. Paraskevopoulos

Copper-containing glass polyalkenoate cements based on SiO₂–ZnO–CaO–SrO–P₂O₅ glasses:
glass characterization, physical and antibacterial properties

S. Mokhtari, K. D. Skelly, E. A. Krull, A. Coughlan, N. P.
Mellott, Y. Gong, R. Borges & A. W. Wren

Sol–gel-derived manganese-releasing bioactive glass as a
therapeutic approach for bone tissue engineering

Breno Rocha Barrioni, Ana Celeste Oliveira, Maria de Fátima
Leite & Marivalda de Magalhães Pereira

Influence of calcium and phosphorus release from bioactive
glasses on viability and differentiation of dental pulp stem
cells

Arezou Baharlou Houreh, Sheyda Labbaf, Hung-Kai Ting, Fatemeh
Ejeian, Julian R. Jones & Mohammad-Hossein Nasr Esfahani

Osteoblast-like cell responses to silicate ions released from
45S5-type bioactive glass and siloxane-doped vaterite

Akiko Obata, Norihiko Iwanaga, Arisa Terada, Gavin Jell &
Toshihiro Kasuga

Thermal, structural and in vitro dissolution of antimicrobial
copper-doped and slow resorbable iron-doped phosphate glasses

A. Mishra, L. Petit, M. Pihl, M. Andersson, T. Salminen, J.
Rocherullé & J. Massera

Effect of processing parameters on textural and bioactive
properties of sol–gel-derived borate glasses

William C. Lepry, Shiva Naseri & Showan N. Nazhat

Do properties of bioactive glasses exhibit mixed alkali
behavior?

Xiaoju Wang, Susanne Fagerlund, Jonathan Massera, Berndt
Södergård & Leena Hupa

MAS-NMR support for Hench model in the case of bioactive glass
microspheres

S. Simon, D. Cacaina, M. Vasilescu, H. Ylänen & M. Hupa

Reactive molecular dynamics: an effective tool for modelling the
sol–gel synthesis of bioglasses

Alexander S. Côté, Alastair N. Cormack & Antonio Tilocca

Effect of strontium inclusion on the bioactivity of
phosphate-based glasses

J. K. Christie & N. H. de Leeuw

Bioactive glass containing silicone composites for left
ventricular assist device drivelines: role of Bioglass 45S5^® particle
size on mechanical properties and cytocompatibility

Nicholas H. Cohrs, Konstantin Schulz-Schönhagen, Florian Jenny,
Dirk Mohn & Wendelin J. Stark

Tough and strong porous bioactive glass-PLA composites for
structural bone repair

Wei Xiao, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Guangda Li, B. Sonny Bal & Mohamed
N. Rahaman

Polymer-coated bioactive glass S53P4 increases VEGF and TNF
expression in an induced membrane model in vivo

R. Björkenheim, G. Strömberg, J. Pajarinen, M. Ainola, P.
Uppstu, L. Hupa, T. O. Böhling & N. C. Lindfors

Hybrid sol–gel inorganic/gelatin porous fibres via solution blow
spinning

Ryan D. Greenhalgh, William S. Ambler, Stephen J. Quinn, Eliton
S. Medeiros, Michael Anderson, Barbara Gore, Angelika Menner,
Alexander Bismarck, Xu Li, Nicola Tirelli & Jonny J. Blaker

Engineering the surface functionality of 45S5 bioactive
glass-based scaffolds by the heterogeneous nucleation and growth
of silver particles

Thomas Meincke, Valentina Miguez Pacheco, Daniel Hoffmann, Aldo
R. Boccaccini & Robin N. Klupp Taylor

45S5 Bioglass^® concentrations
modulate the release of vancomycin hydrochloride from
gelatin–starch films: evaluation of antibacterial and cytotoxic
effects

Josefina Rivadeneira, Ana Laura Di Virgilio, M. Carina Audisio,
Aldo R. Boccaccini & Alejandro A. Gorustovich

Electrophoretic deposition of spray-dried Sr-containing
mesoporous bioactive glass spheres on glass–ceramic scaffolds
for bone tissue regeneration

Giulia Molino, Alessandra Bari, Francesco Baino, Sonia Fiorilli
& Chiara Vitale-Brovarone

Bioactive glass coatings fabricated by laser cladding on ceramic
acetabular cups: a proof-of-concept study

Francesco Baino, Maria Angeles Montealegre, Gissur Orlygsson,
Giorgia Novajra & Chiara Vitale-Brovarone

Bioactive glass coating on gelatin scaffolds at ambient
temperature: easy route to make polymer scaffolds become
bioactive

Jonathan Lao, Xavier Dieudonné, Mhammed Benbakkar & Édouard
Jallot

Pulsed laser-deposited composite carbon–glass–ceramic films with
improved hardness

M. Curcio, A. De Bonis, M. Fosca, A. Santagata, R. Teghil & J.
V. Rau

Dual-surface modification of titanium alloy with anodizing
treatment and bioceramic particles for enhancing prosthetic
devices

M. V. Gonzalez Galdos, J. I. Pastore, J. Ballarre & S. M. Ceré

Structure–properties relationships in fibre drawing of bioactive
phosphate glasses

Laura Muñoz-Senovilla, Francisco Muñoz, Gregory Tricot, Ifty
Ahmed & Andrew J. Parsons

Robocast 45S5 bioglass scaffolds: in vitro behavior

Azadeh Motealleh, Siamak Eqtesadi, Ana Civantos, Antonia Pajares
& Pedro Miranda

Multifunctional ferrimagnetic glass–ceramic for the treatment of
bone tumor and associated complications

Marta Miola, Roberto Gerbaldo, Francesco Laviano, Matteo Bruno &
Enrica Vernè

Fabrication of bioinspired structured glass–ceramics with
enhanced fracture toughness

Seyed-Iman Roohani-Esfahani, Kang Lin & Hala Zreiqat

Bioactive glasses functionalized with polyphenols: in vitro
interactions with healthy and cancerous osteoblast cells

M. Cazzola, E. Vernè, A. Cochis, R. Sorrentino, B. Azzimonti, E.
Prenesti, L. Rimondini & S. Ferraris