Ce-containing bioactive glasses are of great interest in biomedical field since they exert antioxidant properties associated with low toxicity and a broad spectrum of bacteriostatic activities. The results obtained by classical molecular dynamics simulations allow the elucidation of the correlations between the effect of the inclusion of cerium doping ions into the structure of phosphosilicate and silicate bioactive glasses and their properties. The addition of small quantities of Ce to the silicate bioglass favours the depolymerisation of the silicate network with a positive effect on the ability to dissolve in body fluid. Moreover, the under coordination of both the Ce3+ and Ce4+ species in these glasses enhances their catalytic activity towards hydrogen peroxide. Conversely, the formation of cerium phosphate domains in the phosphosilicate glasses leads to detrimental effects for both the solubility and the catalytic activity of the glasses. Finally, a new quantitative view of the structure-activity relationships governing the macroscopic properties of these glasses has been obtained by means of structural descriptor that takes into account the fragmentation of the Si network and the consequent rearrangement of the modifier ions and the network destruction per cerium unit descriptor.
An atomic-level look at the structure-property relationship of cerium-doped glasses using classical molecular dynamics / Pedone, Alfonso; Tavanti, Francesco; Malavasi, Gianluca; Menziani, Maria Cristina. - In: JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS. - ISSN 0022-3093. - 498:(2018), pp. 331-337. [10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2018.03.040]
An atomic-level look at the structure-property relationship of cerium-doped glasses using classical molecular dynamics
Pedone, AlfonsoFunding Acquisition
;Tavanti, FrancescoFormal Analysis
;Malavasi, GianlucaSupervision
;Menziani, Maria Cristina
Conceptualization
2018
Abstract
Ce-containing bioactive glasses are of great interest in biomedical field since they exert antioxidant properties associated with low toxicity and a broad spectrum of bacteriostatic activities. The results obtained by classical molecular dynamics simulations allow the elucidation of the correlations between the effect of the inclusion of cerium doping ions into the structure of phosphosilicate and silicate bioactive glasses and their properties. The addition of small quantities of Ce to the silicate bioglass favours the depolymerisation of the silicate network with a positive effect on the ability to dissolve in body fluid. Moreover, the under coordination of both the Ce3+ and Ce4+ species in these glasses enhances their catalytic activity towards hydrogen peroxide. Conversely, the formation of cerium phosphate domains in the phosphosilicate glasses leads to detrimental effects for both the solubility and the catalytic activity of the glasses. Finally, a new quantitative view of the structure-activity relationships governing the macroscopic properties of these glasses has been obtained by means of structural descriptor that takes into account the fragmentation of the Si network and the consequent rearrangement of the modifier ions and the network destruction per cerium unit descriptor.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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