Fabrication of Nanostructured Composites based on Hydroxyapatite and ε-Polylysine
Materials Letters 2016
Līga Stīpniece, Kristīne Šalma-Ancāne, Inga Narkevica, Inna Juhņeviča, Līga Bērziņa-Cimdiņa

An objective of this work was to develop novel inorganic–organic nanocomposites based on the hydroxyapatite (HAp) and natural biopolymer ε-polylisine (ε-PL) as bone tissue engineering matrices. For this investigation, the composites with HAp/ε-PL ratios of 50/50 and 70/30 by wt% were prepared through in situ precipitation of HAp in ε-PL aqueous solutions followed by spray drying of obtained suspensions. The FT-IR spectra and FE-SEM micrographs demonstrated that the composites were obtained in a form of spherical microgranules which consist of nanosized apatite crystallites interacted with ε-PL organic phase. The XRD patterns indicated that crystallization behavior of the HAp was affected by addition of ε-PL.


Keywords
Hydroxyapatite; in situ synthesis; ε-polylisine; microgranules
DOI
10.1016/j.matlet.2015.10.077
Hyperlink
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X15307266

Stīpniece, L., Šalma-Ancāne, K., Narkevica, I., Juhņeviča, I., Bērziņa-Cimdiņa, L. Fabrication of Nanostructured Composites based on Hydroxyapatite and ε-Polylysine. Materials Letters, 2016, Vol.163, pp.65-68. ISSN 0167-577X. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2015.10.077

Publication language
English (en)
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