Abstract:
Brazil is considered a developing country. In recent decades, it has shown remarkable progress in various aspects of the economy, education, politics, science, and health. Recent advances in tissue engineering have focused on using biochemical and physicochemical signals to trigger specific cellular responses and encourage better biological interaction between biomaterial and living tissue. As a result, there has been significant interest in the development of smart biomaterials capable of generating in situ electrical stimuli for accelerated bone repair, healing, and regeneration. Piezoelectric ceramics could hold the key to functionalizing current grafts, as they exhibit electric behavior generated mechanically. In this study, the production of potassium-sodium niobate (K0.5Na0.5NbO3) obtained through solid-state reaction (SSR) and sintered via conventional sintering and spark plasma sintering (SPS) will be adopted to observe changes in the microstructure. The synthesis was efficient, and the material displays characteristics that validate its potential biomedical application, along with excellent piezoelectric results.