The effects of replacing collagen fibers with carbon nanotubes on the rate of bone remodeling process

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 542-548

  Jamilpour, Nima ^a   Fereidoon, Abdolhosein ^a   Rouhi, Gholamreza ^b,c  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial bone; Bone remodeling process; Carbon nanotubes; Collagen fibers; Strain energy density

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL BONES; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BONE REMODELING; BONE REMODELING PROCESS; BONE TISSUE; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBERS; COUPLED PROCESS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL STIMULUS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; STRAIN ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BIOMECHANICS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRAIN ENERGY; TISSUE;

BONE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYAPATITE;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRESS; ENERGY METABOLISM; MECHANICAL STRESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PROSTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REMODELING; BONE SUBSTITUTES; COLLAGEN; DURAPATITE; ELASTIC MODULUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 80052880249     PISSN: 15507033     EISSN: 15507041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jbn.2011.1319     Document Type: Article

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