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. 2019 Oct 5;4:261–270. doi: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2019.09.002

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

In vitro and in vivo bioactivity of bioactive glass. (a) Scheme of apatite formation on the surface of bioactive glass [114]. (b–c) SEM images of the layer-structured hydroxyapatite microspheres converted from 2Na2O–2CaO–6B2O3 bioactive glass in vitro [69]. (d) BSE-SEM images and elemental mappings for Ti (blue), Ca (red), Si (green) of sol–gel bioactive glass coated porous Ti after 4 weeks of implantation in a rabbit tibia defect [121].