Novel, simple and reproducible method for preparation of composite hierarchal porous structure scaffolds

Materials Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 2578-2581

  Roohani Esfahani, Seyed Iman ^a   Lu, Zufu ^a   Zreiqat, Hala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Hierarchal structure; Pore size; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; NANOPORES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; SCAFFOLDS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TISSUE REGENERATION;

BONE TISSUE REGENERATION; HIERARCHICAL POROUS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POLYMER SPONGES; PORES STRUCTURE; POROUS STRUCTURES; SALT LEACHING; SR-HARDYSTONITE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 79959557862     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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