Recently,a novel sol-gel technique which uses calcium nitrate tetrahydrate and phosphoric pentoxide as Ca and P precursors has been developed to prepare nano HA powder.Compared with other sol-gel processes, it is a simple way which does not require controlling pH value and long time. However,the reaction mechanism of this sol-gel process has not known.In this [...]

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function. With the development of biomaterial science and tissue-engineering techniques, various tissue-engineered cartilage has been made in animal models in recent years. A tissue-engineered cartilage product has been approved clinical [...]

In recent years, a variety of bioactive inorganic materials have been studied as important bone substitutes, and the results showed that the CaO-SiO2-based materials such as bioglass and glass-ceramics are bioactive and biocompatible. However, the bioactive glasses such as 45S5 Bioglass? are too brittle to be fabricated the block parts, which limits their clinical applications. [...]

Bioceramics as scalfold is the hotspot of the tissue engineer. Along with the economic and technical development, synthetic materials are showing a promising foreground in the medical field. As a part of National Science Foundation of China “The research of molecular self-assemble nano RADA16-RGD/CPP compounds for bone repair (50472091)” , the aim of this study [...]

【Objective】:β-TCP is an ideal scaffold for bone tissue engineering of inorganicmaterials with attractive applications. However, the traditionalmaking-method ofβ-TCP bioceramics is hard to control the microstructureof the scaffold, soβ-TCP bioceramics were seldom applied to thecartilage tissue engineering.Recently,French Mediterranean Universityhas successfully developed a controllable porous structure ofβ-tricalcium phosphate porous ceramic materials.This material not onlyhas good biocompatibility and [...]