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Florin Miculescu

Polytechnic University of Bucharest Romania

Florin Miculescu received his PhD title in Engineering in 2006 and the Habilitation title in 2014 at University „Politehnica” of Bucharest, România. During his career he has participated in five postdoctoral stages in Europe and USA in the field of biomaterials, nanomaterials and materials characterization. In 2015 he became the youngest Full Professor coordinator of PhD students in materials science from the establishment of the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He is the head of two research laboratories within the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering. In the past 15 years has led six national research projects and more than 50 projects for private companies in the field of materials science, engineering, and technology. Prof.Dr.Habil. Florin Miculescu has published over 80 peer-reviewed research articles related to material science and has co-authored 8 books. He received few international awards and is a member of several professional associations from Europe. He is the President of the Romanian Society for Biomaterials (SRB).

2chapters authored

Chapters authored

Biological Reactions to Dental Implants

By Lucian Toma Ciocan, Florin Miculescu, Marian Miculescu and Ion Patrascu

Part of the book: Implant Dentistry

Biomimetic Calcium Phosphates Derived from Marine and Land Bioresources

By Florin Miculescu, Aura-Cătălina Mocanu, Andreea Maidaniuc, Cătălina-Andreea Dascălu, Marian Miculescu, Ștefan Ioan Voicu and Robert-Cătălin Ciocoiu

This chapter aims to establish the key factors for technological optimization of biogenic calcium phosphate synthesis from marine and land resources. Three natural calcium sources—marble, seashell and bovine bone—were considered as raw materials. The proposed materials are suitable candidates for the synthesis of bone substitutes similar to the inorganic bone component. The synthesis processes were developed based on the investigations of thermal phenomena (TGA-DSC analysis) that can occur during thermal treatments. By this method, we were able to determine the optimum routes and temperatures for the complete dissociation of calcium carbonate as well as risk-free deproteinization of bovine bone. An exhaustive characterization, performed with modern and complementary techniques such as morphology (SEM), composition (EDS, XRF) and structure (FT-IR, XRD), is presented for each precursor. The final chemical composition of ceramic products can be modulated through a careful control of the key parameters involved in the conversion, in order to create long-term performant biphasic apatite biomaterials, with broad medical applicability. Identifying the suitable strategies for this modulation contributes to an appreciable advance in orthopedic tissue engineering.

Part of the book: Hydroxyapatite

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