Fabrication of interconnected porous Ag substituted octacalcium phosphate blocks based on a dissolution-precipitation reaction

Abstract Here, we introduce Ag substituted octacalcium phosphate (OCP-Ag) blocks with interconnected porous structure and sufficient mechanical strength as bone substitute (i.e., foam). We employed a two-step process for fabrication, which includes a setting reaction for acidic calcium phosphate gra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuki Sugiura, Masanori Horie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2022-05-01
Series:Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-022-06672-5