Improved Bioactivity of 3D Printed Porous Titanium Alloy Scaffold with Chitosan/Magnesium-Calcium Silicate Composite for Orthopaedic Applications

• Published in: Materials Vol. 12; no. 2; p. 203
• Main Authors: Tsai, Chun-Hao, Hung, Chih-Hung, Kuo, Che-Nan, Chen, Cheng-Yu, Peng, Yu-Ning, Shie, Ming-You
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 09.01.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Additive manufacturing; Apatite; Biocompatibility; Biological activity; Biological materials; Biomedical materials; Bones; CAD; Ceramics; Chitosan; Computer aided design; Contact angle; Ductility; Elastic limit; Extracellular matrix; Lasers; Mechanical properties; Modulus of elasticity; Organic fibers; Orthopedics; Scaffolds; Substitute bone; Surgical implants; Three dimensional printing; Tissue engineering; Titanium alloys; Titanium base alloys; Yield stress; United Kingdom > UK; England; United States > US; chitosan; osteogenesis; three-dimensional scaffolds; bone tissue engineering; titanium; magnesium-calcium silicate

Recently, cases of bone defects have been increasing incrementally. Thus, repair or replacement of bone defects is gradually becoming a huge problem for orthopaedic surgeons. Three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds have since emerged as a potential candidate for bone replacement, of which titanium (Ti) all...