Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma11091540
Keywords
porous titanium; bioactive glasses; coating; bone implant
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31800802]
- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in NWPU [SKLSP201715]
- Shaanxi Key Research and Development Program Plan [2018KW-031]
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Additive manufacturing enabled the fabrication of porous titanium (PT) with customized porosity and mechanical properties. However, functionalization of PT surfaces with bioactive coatings is being challenged due to sophisticated geometry and highly porous structure. In this study, a facile flow-casting technique was developed to produce homogeneous 45S5 bioactive glass (BG) coatings on the entire surface of PT. The coating weight as a function of BG concentration in a BG-PVA slurry was investigated to achieve controllable coating yield without blocking macropore structure. The annealing-treated BG coating not only exhibited compact adhesion confirmed by qualitative sonication treatment, but also enhanced the mechanical properties of PT scaffolds. Moreover, in-vitro assessments of BG-coated PT cultured with MC3T3-E1 cells was carried out having in mind their potential as bioactive bone implants. The experimental results in this study offer a simple and versatile approach for the bio-functionalization of PT and other porous biomedical devices.
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