A new technique called laser spinning is presented in this work. This technique was employed for the synthesis of bioactive fibers. The technique is based in the laser melting of a glass plate under atmospheric conditions at room temperature. A high pressure gas jet is employed to assist the process. The glass plate was previously prepared by the traditional method of glass melting. This technique yields a great quantity of free-standing fibers with diameters ranging from tens of nanometers up to tens of microns in a short processing time. The resulting product was analyzed by means of a Field Emission SEM in order to characterize their morphology.

These fibers may be used as scaffolds for tissue engineering or as reinforcement in polymeric matrix composites that can be used as bone substitutes.

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