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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 131, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.40237
Keywords
biomimetic; swelling; functionalization of polymers; CaCO3; biomineralized hydrogel
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- Research and Development for Innovation Operational Program
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- national budget of the Czech Republic [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0111, CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0104]
- Education for Competitiveness Operational Program
- European Social Fund (ESF)
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In the blend of natural and synthetic polymer-based biomaterial of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), fabrication of CaCO3 was successfully accomplished using simple liquid diffusion technique. The present study emphasizes the biomimetic mineralization in PVP-CMC hydrogel, and furthermore, several properties of this regenerated and functionalized hydrogel membranes were investigated. The physical properties were studied and confirmed the presence of CaCO3 mineral in hydrogel by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Scanning electron microscopy. Moreover, the absorptivity of water and mineral by PVP-CMC hydrogel was studied to determine its absorption capacity. Further, the viscoelastic properties (storage modulus, loss modulus, and complex viscosity) of mineralized and swelled samples (time: 5-150 min) were measured against angular frequency. It is interesting to know the increase of elastic nature of mineralized hydrogel filled with CaCO3 maintaining the correlation between elastic property and viscous one of pure hydrogel. All these properties of biomineralized hydrogel suggest its application in biomedical field, like bone treatment, bone tissue regeneration, dental plaque and tissue replacement, etc. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2014, 131, 40237.
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