1. Cotton-wool-like bioactive glasses for bone regeneration
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Poologasundarampillai, G., Wang, D., Li, S., Nakamura, J., Bradley, R., Lee, P.D., Stevens, M.M., McPhail, D.S., Kasuga, T., Jones, J.R., and Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
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Technology ,Bone Regeneration ,MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS ,SCAFFOLDS ,Biochemistry ,Mice ,Engineering ,Biomimetic Materials ,Cell Movement ,Materials Testing ,HYBRID MATERIALS ,Tissue Scaffolds ,Wool ,3T3 Cells ,CAO-SIO2 SYSTEM ,Silicon Dioxide ,Body Fluids ,POLYMER-SOLUTIONS ,Porosity ,FIBERS ,Biotechnology ,Materials Science ,Biomedical Engineering ,Sol–gel ,Biomaterials ,MD Multidisciplinary ,EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX ,Cell Adhesion ,Animals ,Humans ,Cotton Fiber ,Engineering, Biomedical ,Molecular Biology ,Sol-gel ,Gossypium ,Science & Technology ,Electrospinning ,3-D cotton-wool-like structure ,Bone regeneration scaffold ,IN-VITRO BIOACTIVITY ,MECHANICAL-BEHAVIOR ,Nanostructures ,Inorganic fibers ,CELLS ,ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS ,Glass - Abstract
Inorganic sol-gel solutions were electrospun to produce the first bioactive three-dimensional (3-D) scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration with a structure like cotton-wool (or cotton candy). This flexible 3-D fibrous structure is ideal for packing into complex defects. It also has large inter-fiber spaces to promote vascularization, penetration of cells and transport of nutrients throughout the scaffold. The 3-D fibrous structure was obtained by electrospinning, where the applied electric field and the instabilities exert tremendous force on the spinning jet, which is required to be viscoelastic to prevent jet break up. Previously, polymer binding agents were used with inorganic solutions to produce electrospun composite two-dimensional fibermats, requiring calcination to remove the polymer. This study presents novel reaction and processing conditions for producing a viscoelastic inorganic sol-gel solution that results in fibers by the entanglement of the intermolecularly overlapped nanosilica species in the solution, eliminating the need for a binder. Three-dimensional cotton-wool-like structures were only produced when solutions containing calcium nitrate were used, suggesting that the charge of the Ca2+ ions had a significant effect. The resulting bioactive silica fibers had a narrow diameter range of 0.5-2 μm and were nanoporous. A hydroxycarbonate apatite layer was formed on the fibers within the first 12 h of soaking in simulated body fluid. MC3T3-E1 preosteoblast cells cultured on the fibers showed no adverse cytotoxic effect and they were observed to attach to and spread in the material. © 2014 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- 2014
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