ISSN:
1013-9826
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
Crystalline hydroxyapatite (HA) and 0.8 wt.% silicon-substituted HA (SiHA) thin filmswere produced using magnetron co-sputtering. These films were subjected to contact anglemeasurements and in vitro cell culture study using human osteoblast-like (HOB) cells. A wettabilitystudy showed that SiHA has a lower contact angle, and thus is more hydrophilic in nature, ascompared to HA. Consequently, enhanced cell growth was observed on SiHA at all time-points.Furthermore, distinct and well-developed actin filaments could be seen within HOB cells on SiHA.Thus, this work demonstrated that the surface properties of the coating may be modified by thesubstitution of Si into the HA structure
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/53/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FKEM.330-332.877.pdf
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