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Novel fabrication of hierarchically porous hydroxyapatite scaffolds with refined porosity and suitable strength

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posted on 2015-08-27, 10:23 authored by Zhichao Chen, X.L. Zhang, Kui Zhou, H. Cai, Changqing Liu
Based on extrusion deposition and foaming technique, a novel method for biological hydroxyapatite (HA) scaffolds was introduced in this paper. The scaffolds were primarily characterised by interconnected and hierarchically porous structures with high porosity, adjustable distribution of pore sizes, as well as considerable mechanical strength. In order to confirm that fine control of bulk porosity and mechanical strength was possible and feasible, further analysis of obtained scaffolds was carried out by field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), compressive test and calculation of volumetric shrinkage; in particular, the additional porosity resulting from the introduction of pore former was evaluated. The results indicated that this method can have a great potential to construct HA scaffolds of suitable quality for spongy bone in bone tissue engineering.

Funding

Seventh European Community Framework Programme for financial support through a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Project entitled ‘Micro-multi-material manufacture to enable multifunctional miniaturised devices (M6)’ (Grant No. PIRSESGA-2010-269113), as well as the Analytical and Testing Center in HUST.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

ADVANCES IN APPLIED CERAMICS

Volume

114

Issue

3

Pages

183 - 187 (5)

Citation

CHEN, Z.C. et al., 2014. Novel fabrication of hierarchically porous hydroxyapatite scaffolds with refined porosity and suitable strength. Advances in Applied Ceramics, 114 (3), pp. 183 - 187.

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© Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Published by Maney on behalf of the Institute

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

Closed access. This article was published in the journal, Advances in Applied Ceramics Volume 114 (3) and the definitive version is available at: http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/10.1179/1743676114Y.0000000213

ISSN

1743-6753

Language

  • en

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