Bioactive polymer/hydroxyapatite (nano)composites for bone tissue regeneration

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-207

  Pielichowska, Kinga ^a   Blazewicz, Stanislaw ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomedical polymers; Hydroxyapatite; Macromolecular nanomaterials; Tissue regeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053414071     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12_2010_50     Document Type: Review

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