Camila B. Tovani

TL;DR: The chemical and physical properties of the surface of these materials allow their use in diagnosis, biosensing and bioimaging devices, drug delivery systems, and bone substitute implants, and toxicology of these particles is discussed in the light of a new field referred to as nanotoxicology that studies the surface effects emerging from nanostructured materials.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the creation of particles and modified surfaces inspired by the structure and composition of biogenic mineralized tissues, the development of biofunctional coatings, materials inspired by biomembranes and proteins, and the design of superwettable materials.

TL;DR: The formation of a new Sr2+-rich and stable amorphous calcium phosphate phase, Sr(ACP), which co-exists with the HA under physiological conditions is reported, suggesting that heterogeneous Sr2+, distribution in bone is associated with regions of low structural organization.

TL;DR: An innovative strategy based on the use of track-etched membranes as physical confinement to produce collagen-free strontium substituted-CaPs nanotubes that tend to mimic the building block of bone, i.e. the mineralized collagen fibrils is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, a biomimetic approach was used to synthesize carbonate particles with a controlled size in which Ca2+ was progressively substituted for Sr2+ through structural investigation by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and electron microscopy techniques.