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Bio‐Inspired Mineral Growth on Porous Spherulitic Textured Poly(L‐lactic acid)/Bioactive Glass Composite Scaffolds
Author(s) -
Ghosh S.,
Reis R. L.,
Mano J. F.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced engineering materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1527-2648
pISSN - 1438-1656
DOI - 10.1002/adem.200700360
Subject(s) - materials science , composite number , apatite , porosity , adhesion , composite material , texture (cosmology) , polyethylene , bioactive glass , chemical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics) , engineering
It has been shown that texture can strongly influence the adhesion, orientation and proliferation of cells onto the surface of biomaterials. Additionally, it is possible to imprint micrometer level textures throughout the scaffolds by melt compounding PLLA/polyethylene oxide (PEO) blend, quenching followed by leaching of PEO in water. The objective of this work is to verify how the texture in 3D porous PLLA/Bioglass®composite scaffolds may influence the precipitation of apatite in vitro .