Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Study on Porous Bioglass Scaffold Prepared by Dipping with Polymer Foams

XIE Lin1,2, CHEN Xiao-Feng1,2, ZHAO Na-Ru1,2, GUO Chang-Liang1,2   

  1. 1.Biomaterials Research Institute, College of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China; 2.The Key Laboratory of Specially Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • Received:2008-07-09 Revised:2008-08-27 Published:2009-03-20 Online:2009-03-20

Abstract: The porous bioglass scaffolds with high porosity and interconnectivity and controllable pore size were prepared by using the powder of sol-gel derived bioactive glass-58S as the material and the pre-produced polymer foam as the template. The apparent porosity, crystalline phases, micromorphologies and bioactivity were investigated by using Archimedes drainage method, X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scan emission Microscope (SEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope (FTIR) techniques. The results show that the apparent porosity of the porous scaffolds can reach about 93% when the materials are dipped once, while the apparent porosity decreases to 80% after dipped twice. The originally formed amorphousphosphorus compounds on the surface of samples are mineralized to hydroxyl-carbonate-apatite (HCA) with increasing dipping time in the SBF solution as the reaction progressed. So it can be concluded that this kind of material has good biomineralization property and bioactivity in SBF solution at the constant temperature of 37℃.

Key words: bioactive glass, organic foam impregnation, porous scaffold, hydroxyl-carbonate-apatite (HCA)

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