A New Way to Prepare Porous Polylactide /Hydroxyapatite Scaffold at Room Temperature

Abstract:

A new way to prepare polymer/hydroxyapatite(HA) composite scaffolds with 3-D interconnected macro and micro pores at room temperature was established, basically based on solvent-casting and particle-leaching together with foaming technique. With this method, Polylactide (PLA) / HA composites of porous architecture with macro pores (50~300)m, average 200)m) and micro pores (~10)m) on the skeleton were obtained. The bending strength and the compressive strength of the composite scaffold were reached to 11.5 MPa and 7MPa respectively with the porosity of approximate to 90%. The study supplied a new short time, low energyexpending method to prepare polymer/ceramic composite with high porosity and interconnected porous structure at room temperature.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 309-311)
• Pages: 1083-1086
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.309-311.1083
• Online since: May 2006
• Authors: Yi Wang, Hong Song Fan, Yu Mei Xiao, Zhong Wei Gu, Xing Dong Zhang
• Keywords: Composite, Hydroxyapatite (HAP), Poly(lactic acid) (PLA), Porous Scaffold

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