The development of artificial articular cartilage - PVA-hydrogel

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-81

  Gu, Zheng Qiu ^a   Xiao, Jiu Mei ^a   Zhang, Xiang Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial articular cartilage; Cross linking by irradiation; Dehydrating in vacuum; PVA hydrogel; Repeated freezing thawing

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESICCATION; ELASTICITY; FREEZING; HYDROGEL; IRRADIATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THAWING;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DESICCATION; FREEZING; GELS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; SOLUBILITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; VACUUM;

POTATO VIRUS A;

EID: 0002788962     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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