Is graphene a promising nano-material for promoting surface modification of implants or scaffold materials in bone tissue engineering?

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 477-491

  Gu, Ming ^a   Liu, Yunsong ^a   Chen, Tong ^a   Du, Feng ^b   Zhao, Xianghui ^a   Xiong, Chunyang ^b   Zhou, Yongsheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL OF STOMATOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE; CELL CULTURE; FLOWCHARTING; GRAPHENE; STEM CELLS; TISSUE; TISSUE REGENERATION;

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; BONE REGENERATION; BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; OSTEODIFFERENTIATION; OSTEOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION; SCAFFOLD MATERIALS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE; NITINOL; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE IMPLANT; BONE REGENERATION; BONE TISSUE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NITINOL STENT; OSTEOBLAST; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84913555957     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2013.0638     Document Type: Review

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