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| العنوان: |
Enhancing Stability of High-Concentration β-Tricalcium Phosphate Suspension for Biomedical Application. |
| المؤلفون: |
Chuang, Kai-Wen, Liu, Yi-Chen, Balaji, Ramachandran, Chiu, Yu-Chieh, Yu, Jiashing, Liao, Ying-Chih |
| المصدر: |
Materials (1996-1944); Jan2023, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p228, 12p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
VAN der Waals forces, CELLULOSE nanocrystals, THICKENING agents, BONE cements, SURFACE potential, ELECTRORHEOLOGY, PARTICLE motion |
| مستخلص: |
We propose a novel process to efficiently prepare highly dispersed and stable Tricalcium Phosphate (β-TCP) suspensions. TCP is coupled with a polymer to enhance its brittleness to be used as an artificial hard tissue. A high solid fraction of β-TCP is mixed with the polymer in order to improve the mechanical strength of the prepared material. The high solid fractions led to fast particle aggregation due to Van der Waals forces, and sediments appeared quickly in the suspension. As a result, we used a dispersant, dispex AA4040 (A40), to boost the surface potential and steric hindrance of particles to make a stable suspension. However, the particle size of β-TCP is too large to form a suspension, as the gravity effect is much more dominant than Brownian motion. Hence, β-TCP was subjected to wet ball milling to break the aggregated particles, and particle size was reduced to ~300 nm. Further, to decrease sedimentation velocity, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are added as a thickening agent to increase the overall viscosity of suspension. Besides the viscosity enhancement, CNCs were also wrapped with A40 micelles and increase the stability of the suspension. These CNC/A40 micelles further facilitated stable suspension of β-TCP particles with an average hydration radius of 244.5 nm. Finally, β-TCP bone cement was formulated with the suspension, and the related cytotoxicity was estimated to demonstrate its applicability for hard tissue applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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