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- Title
Multicomponent Fabrication of Bone-Like Composite Materials Using Chitosan/PMMA- co-PHEMA/Nano-Hydroxyapatite.
- Authors
Bhowmick, Arundhati; Kundu, Patit Paban; Kumar, Ratnesh; Das, Manas
- Abstract
ABSTRACT In this paper, we report a simple approach for the fabrication of bone-like composite materials (BCMs) by blending chitosan (CTS), a natural polysaccharide, nano-hydroxyapatite as bone mineral, and polymethylmethacrylate- co-polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate (PMMA- co-PHEMA) as bone cement. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies were performed to determine the components of composites. Scanning electron microscopy study of composites revealed a well-dispersed flake-like structure with increasing content of PMMA- co-PHEMA. The water-uptake ability of the BCMs was also found to increase with increasing the PMMA- co-PHEMA content. Study of mechanical properties revealed that the Young's modulus and stiffness increased significantly after the addition of PMMA- co-PHEMA in BCMs compared with CTS-HAP blend. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Technol 2014, 33, 21391; View this article online at . DOI 10.1002/adv.21391
- Subjects
COMPOSITE materials; HYDROXYAPATITE; CHITOSAN; POLYSACCHARIDES; POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE; FOURIER transform infrared spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction
- Publication
Advances in Polymer Technology, 2014, Vol 33, Issue 1, pn/a
- ISSN
0730-6679
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adv.21391