Evaluating the effect of increasing ceramic content on the mechanical properties, material microstructure and degradation of selective laser sintered polycaprolactone/β-tricalcium phosphate materials

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 767-776

  Doyle, Heather ^a   Lohfeld, Stefan ^a   McHugh, Peter ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accelerated ageing; Bone tissue engineering; Degradation; Mechanical properties; Polycaprolactone; Selective laser sintering; Tricalcium phosphate

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; BIOMATERIALS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; SINTERING; STIFFNESS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ACCELERATED AGEING; BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING; CRITICAL SIZED DEFECTS; DEGRADATION BEHAVIOURS; MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURES; PROPERTIES AND MICROSTRUCTURES; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; TRI-CALCIUM PHOSPHATES;

LASER HEATING;

BIOMATERIAL; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; BETA-TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE; BONE PROSTHESIS; POLYESTER; POLYMER;

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CERAMICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE PROSTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; BONE SUBSTITUTES; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CERAMICS; ELASTIC MODULUS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OSTEOGENESIS; POLYESTERS; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84937524778     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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