Formation of Glass-Ceramic Coatings on Bioinert Substrates

A method has been developed for forming glass-ceramic coatings on bioinert substrates directly from an organic solution, making it possible to create on porous materials thin bioactive layers replicating the form of the carrier pores. The method of obtaining from organic solutions bioglasses with different composition has advantages over the use of water solutions by avoiding fractional crystallization during evaporation and over the sol-gel method by penetrating more easily into the pores in bioinert carriers and forming multilayer coatings.