Novel bioactive glass-ceramic

composites for dental restorations

Fact Sheet

Project Information

DENTBIOCOMP Funded under

FP7-PEOPLE
Grant agreement ID: 219952
Overall budget
Status € 169 957,94
Closed project
EU contribution
€ 169 957,94
Start date End date
1 May 2008 30 April 2010
Coordinated by
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND
MEDICINE
  United Kingdom

Objective
There is a need for development new bioactive dental glass-ceramics with controlled
surface reactivity and mechanical properties as well as aesthetic appearance, which
would be capable to establish periodontal tissue attachment similar to the one
observed in healthy teeth. To achieve this objective, our work will focus on two
important tasks: a) the development and optimisation of processing techniques
based on sol-gel and powder technology for the processing of novel bioactive silicate
glass-ceramic composites and b) the complete structural, chemical, mechanical and
biological characterization of the products. The innovative aspect will be the use of
sol-gel technique towards achieving two processes which will lead to synthesis of
novel bioactive inorganic materials; the first stage of experiments aims at the
development of an intimate and homogeneous mixture of the bioactive glass phase
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and the dental ceramic inclusions. During the second stage, glass-ceramics in
appropriate systems for dental applications will be synthesized fully by a new sol-gel
method. To achieve this, the precursor solutions of the different crystalline phases
will be mixed with the respective precursors of the bioactive glasses. The composite
solutions, following the next stages of the standard sol-gel method, will lead to the
fabrication of novel composites, appropriate for dental restorations. The structural,
chemical, surface and biological properties of the new glass-ceramics prepared
under the above processing conditions will be studied by many different methods
like; XRD, DTA, TEM, SEM-EDS, FTIR, BET, ICP, AFM, while the mechanical
properties will be investigated by standard testing facilities. Using extensive
experience of the host laboratory in the microstructure-property correlation of glass-
crystalline composites, we will be able to design the microstructure and composition
of the glass-ceramics to optimise their properties for the required performance in
vitro.

Field of science

/engineering and technology/materials engineering/composites

Programme(s)

Topic(s)

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF

Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE

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Address Activity type EU contribution
South Kensington Campus Higher or Secondary € 169 957,94
Exhibition Road Education Establishments
SW7 2AZ London
  United Kingdom

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Administrative Contact
Shaun Power (Mr.)

Last update: 16 July 2019

Record number: 87637

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