Fabricating polymer-nanocomposite fiber for biomedical applications.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Chew, Shirlin.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Wang Kean
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2009
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering::Polymers and polymer manufacture
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16560

Hydroxyapatite (HA) and Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have been used as biocompatible and osteoconductive substitutes in the biomedical field such as orthopedic. However, HA and POSS are difficult to shape in the specific forms required for bone substitution due to its hardness and br...