Investigations on the Tailorability of Hard Tissue Implant Surfaces by Printing
European Cells and Materials 2017
Dārta Ūbele-Kalniņa, Liene Plūduma, Agnese Brangule, Astrīda Bērziņa, H Koivuluoto, P. Vuoristo, R Juskenas, Kārlis-Agris Gross

The demand for improved implant performance is placing manufacturers in a position to reassess their processing capabilities and use advanced characterization techniques to explore further characteristics and properties. Thermal spraying is paving the way to a potentially new process for tailored surfaces. Printing through a thermal source offers unique characteristics that cannot be provided by other processes, especially if particles are molten and then resolidified; crystallinity directly impacts the bioactivity and the less commonly measured surface potential can influence cell proliferation. Following the theme of the Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials conference on “Underlying challenges in Biomaterials” this work will investigate the change in printed droplet characteristics and see how the geometry, topography, crystallinity and surface potential change with spray distance.


Keywords
hydroxyapatite, geometry, topography, crystallinity, surface potential
DOI
10.22203/eCM
Hyperlink
http://ecmjournal.org/journal/supplements/vol033supp01/vol033supp01.htm

Ūbele, D., Plūduma, L., Brangule, A., Bērziņa, A., Koivuluoto, H., Vuoristo, P., Juskenas, R., Gross, K. Investigations on the Tailorability of Hard Tissue Implant Surfaces by Printing. European Cells and Materials, 2017, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp.33-33. ISSN 1473-2262. Available from: doi:10.22203/eCM

Publication language
English (en)
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