Wei Xia

• PostDoc, MSc, PhD.
  Materials in Medicine, Division of Applied Materials Science
  Department of Engineering Sciences
  Ångström Laboratary, Uppsala University

Research Interests
Projects
Publications

Research Interests

Biomimetic implant coatings, Mesoporous and nanoporous coatings, Sustained and controlled drug delivery systems, Bioceramics, Nanobiomaterials

Projects

Project “BIOACTIVE” in BIOMATCELL.

Publications

Peer-reviewed Papers

• Biomineralized strontium substituted apatite/titanium dioxide coating on titanium surfaces, Wei Xia, Carl Lindahl, Jukka Lausmaa, Per Borchardt, Ahmed Ballo, Peter Thomsen, Håkan Engqvist, Acta Biomaterials 6 (2010), 1591-1600
• Preparation, in vitro bioactivity and drug release property of well-ordered mesoporous 58S bioactive glass, Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 354 (2008) 1338.
• Preparation and the phase transformation behavior of amorphous mesoporous calcium silicate, Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, Microporous and mesoporous materials 108 (2008) 345.
• The pH-controlled dual-drug release from mesoporous bioactive glass/polypeptide graft copolymer nanomicelle composites, Xia W, Chang J, Lin JP, Zhu JQ, Europen Journal Of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 69 (2008) 546.
• Preparation and characterization of nano-bioactive-glasses (NBG) by a quick alkali-mediated sol-gel method, Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, Materials letters, 61 (2007) 3251.
• Fabrication and in vitro biomineralization of bioactive glasses (BG) nanofibers，Wei Xia, Daming Zhang, Jiang Chang, Nanotechnology, 18 (2007) 135601.
• Well-ordered mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBG): a promising bioactive drug delivery system, Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, Journal of controlled release, 110 (2006) 522.

Peer-reviewed Conference Contributions

• Biomimetic fluoride hydroxyapatite coating on dental implants, Wei Xia, Carl Lindahl,Jukka Lausmaa, Peter Thomsen, Håkan Engqvist, Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials (ScSB) annual meeting 2010 – Interfacing biology and materials, Hafill, Norway, 2010.
• Biomimetic ion substituted hydroxyapatite coatings on titanium for orthopedic implants, Wei Xia, Ahmed Ballo, Carl Lindahl, Peter Thomsen, Jukka Lausmaa, Håkan Engqvist, Seventh SICOT/SIROT Annual International Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010.
• Early bone tissue responses to a slicon-substituted apatite/titanium dioxide coating on titanium implant, Ahmed Ballo, Wei Xia, Carl Lindahl, Lena Emanuelsson, Anders Palmquist, Jukka Lausmaa, Håkan Engqvist, Peter Thomsen, International Team for Implantology (ITI) World Symposium, Geneva, Swiss, 2010
• Co-mineralization of fluoride substitued hydroxyapatite/TiO2 coating on Ti implants through a biomineralization process, Carl Lindahl, Wei Xia, Peter Thomsen, Jukka Lausmaa, Håkan Engqvist, Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials (ScSB) annual meeting 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009.
• Co-mineralization of strontium substituted hydroxyapatite on polycrystalline rutile surface through a biomineralization process, Wei Xia, Carl Lindahl, Peter Thomsen, Per Borchardt, Jukka Lausmaa, Hakan Engqvist, 22nd European Conference on Biomaterials, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009
• Biomimetic ion substituted apatite coating on titanium implants: surface composition and morphology control, Wei Xia, Carl Lindahl, Peter Thomsen, Per Borchardt, Jukka Lausmaa, Peter Sjövall, Hakan Engqvist, 2nd China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
• Protein adsorption of sol-gel derived bioactive glasses/collagen composite scaffolds, Jiang Chang, Wei Xia, Jipin Zhong, The Proceeding of the Society for Biomaterials 2006 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2006.
• Fabrication and characterization of bioactive glass/collagen nanocomposite scaffolds, Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, The Proceeding of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Tissue Engineering Society International, Shanghai, China, 2005.
• Preparation, in vitro bioactivity and drug release property of well-ordered mesoporous 58S bioactive glass (M58S), Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, ISG/ICG 2005 international symposium on glass in connection with the annual meeting of the international commission on glass, Shanghai, China, 2005.

Patents

• Ion substituted hydroxyapatite coatings, Wei Xia, Carl Lindahl, Håkan Engqvist, Jukka Lausmaa, Peter Thomsen, 0900560-4, IPC, A61L.
• Surface coating for biomedical application, Wei Xia, Peter Thomsen, Jukka Lausmaa, 0901292-3, IPC, A61L.
• Biomaterial system, Wei Xia, Peter Thomsen, Jukka Lausmaa, 0901292-3, IPC, A61L.
• Preparation and medical application of well-ordered mesoporous Si-Ca bioactive glasses, Wei Xia, Jiang Chang, CN200510030787.7.