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Seeding Induced Aligned Microstructures (S.I.A.M.) in Yba2Cu306+X
Annealing of YBa2Cu_Og (12 3) above the peritectic temperature, followed by slow cooling at 0.5 C/min, was found to produce a microstructure containing regions (d - 200 microns) within which the grains were highl...
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Controlled heterogeneous nucleation of melt-textured YBa2Cu3O6+x by addition of Al2O3 particles
The reaction between alumina and yttrium barium cuprate subjected to a melt-texturing heat treatment was studied. Microstructural examination of quenched, partially transformed samples revealed that at ∼1050 °...
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Development of Novel Nanostructured Tissue Engineering Scaffold Materials through Self-assembly for Bed-side Orthopedic Applications
The objective of the current study was to utilize a natural self-assembled organic biomaterial (helical rosette nanotubes (HRNs)) to improve bone growth necessary for orthopedic implant applications. The DNA b...
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Osteoblast Behaviors on Novel Self-assembled Helical Rosette Nanotubes and Hydrogel Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering
To date, although traditional autografts and allografts have been standard methods to treat bone fractures and defects, the formation of biocompatible and injectable scaffolds to induce new bone growth is stil...
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Different Cell Responses on Biologically Inspired Nano-coatings for Orthopedic Applications
Various bone defects, caused by trauma, disease or age-related degeneration, represent a crucial clinical problem all over the world. However, traditional implant materials may cause many complications after s...
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Orthopedic implants from bioactive rosette nanotubes/poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)/nano-hydroxyapatite composites
With multifunctionality and nanoscale dimensions, self-assembled rosette nanotubes (RNTs) exhibit unique biological and mechanical properties, making them promising to serve as a new generation of implants. Sy...