Tilocca, A;
Pedone, A;
Muniz-Miranda, F;
Menziani, MC;
(2016)
The antioxidant properties of Ce-containing bioactive glass nanoparticles explained by Molecular Dynamics simulations.
Biomedical Glasses
, 2
(1)
pp. 19-28.
10.1515/bglass-2016-0003.
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Molecular dynamics simulations of two glass nanoparticles with composition 25Na2O·25CaO 50SiO2 mol% (Ce-K NP) and 46.1SiO2·24.4Na2O·26.9CaO· 2.6P2O5 mol.% (Ce-BG NP) doped with 3.6 mol% of CeO2 have been carried out in order to explain the enhanced antioxidant properties of the former glass with respect to the latter. The present models show that the different catalase mimetic activity of the two NPs is related to the Ce3+/Ce4+ ratio exposed at their surface. In fact, this ratio is about 3.5 and 13 in the bulk and at the surface of the Ce-BG NP, and 1.0 and 2.1 in the bulk and at the surface of the Ce-K NPs, respectively. Since both oxidation states are necessary for the catalysis of the dismutation reaction of hydrogen peroxides, NPs with a very high Ce3+/Ce4+ ratio possess poorer antioxidant properties. Moreover, our simulations reveal that the already low silicate connectivity found in the bulk glasses examined here is further reduced on the nanoparticle surface, whereas the Na+/Ca2+ ratio rapidly increases. Sodium, calcium and cerium sites in proximity of the surface are found to be under-coordinated, prone to quickly react with water present in physiological environments, thus accelerating the glass biodegradation
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The antioxidant properties of Ce-containing bioactive glass nanoparticles explained by Molecular Dynamics simulations |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1515/bglass-2016-0003 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/bglass-2016-0003 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2016 A. Pedone et al.. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1497978 |
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