Abstract:
Brazil is considered a developing country, in the last decades it has presented remarkable progress in several aspects of the economy, education, politics, science and health. Recent advances in tissue engineering have focused on the use of biochemical and physic-chemical signals to trigger specific cellular responses and encourage better biological interaction between biomaterial and living tissue. As a result, there was a significant interest in the development of intelligent biomaterials, which can generate electrical stimuli in situ, for accelerated bone repair, healing, and regeneration. Piezoelectric ceramics may be the key to the functionalization of current grafts, as they exhibit mechanically generated electrical behaviour. In this work, the production of sodium and potassium niobate (KNN) will be adopted by the sol-gel method to observe changes in the microstructure. The synthesis was efficient, and the material has characteristics that validate its possible biomedical application.