Abstract

AbstractWe report a surfactant free route to synthesize hollow mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles at ambient atmospheric condition. The synthesized particles contain hollow core as a result of mild acid mediated removal of calcium carbonate nanoparticles used as hard template. Removal of template was confirmed through FTIR and XRD while round morphology and sizes below 100 nm could be observed by TEM. In addition, N2 adsorption and desorption analysis confirmed hollow and mesoporous nature of the bioactive glass shell. Interestingly, post removal of template, particles reported higher surface area, pore volume and pore diameter along with decrease in surface charge. Deposition of hydroxyapatite on hollow bioactive glass in Simulated Buffer Fluid (SBF) could be observed from Day 7 of immersion while well‐developed hydroxyapatite depositions could be observed by Day 30. This proved bioactivity of the material while cytotoxicity analysis on Human Osteosarcoma cell line (U2OS) through MTT assay proved the biocompatible nature of the hollow bioactive glass particle.

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