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Article: ORTHOPAEDICS: Apatite-organic polymer composites may prove useful in bone repair
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- Biomedical Materials
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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Japanese scientists at Kyoto University believe they have found apatite-polymer composites that may prove useful as bone repairing materials.
If the composites were fabricated into a three-dimensional structure similar to that of natural bone, they could exhibit mechanical properties analagous to those of natural bone as well as high bioactivity, argue the scientists.
Using a biomimetic process, the scientists created a dense and uniform apatite layer about 20 pm thick formed on a poly(ether sulphone), or PESF, substrate treated with glow discharge in oxygen,
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