Fabrication of porous ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Biomaterials

Volumn 28, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 4078-4090

  Shi, Xinfeng ^a,b   Sitharaman, Balaji ^a,b,c   Pham, Quynh P ^a   Liang, Feng ^b,c   Wu, Katherine ^a   Edward Billups, W ^b,c   Wilson, Lon J ^b,c   Mikos, Antonios G ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanocomposite; Osteoconduction; Poly(propylene fumarate); Porosity; Scaffold; Ultra short single walled carbon nanotube

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE MODULUS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOCONDUCTION; POLY(PROPYLENE FUMARATE);

BONE; CELL CULTURE; CROSSLINKING; NANOCOMPOSITES; PORE STRUCTURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMATERIALS;

CARBON; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; BONE CONDUCTION; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE TISSUE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STROMA CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BONE AND BONES; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FUMARATES; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYMERS; POROSITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34447280397     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.05.033     Document Type: Article

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