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PROCESSES
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr7050297
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sol-gel phase transitions; injectable scaffolds; chitosan; calcium -glycerophosphate; rheology; bone tissue engineering
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The presented work describes the method of preparation of thermosensitive chitosan hydrogels using calcium -glycerophosphate salt as the only pH neutralizing agent and supporting the crosslinking process. The presence of calcium ions instead of sodium ions is particularly important in the case of scaffolds in bone tissue engineering. Rheological and physicochemical properties of low concentrated chitosan solutions with the addition of calcium -glycerophosphate were investigated using rotational rheometry techniques, Zeta potential (by electrophoresis), XPS, and SEM analysis together with an EDS detector. It was found to be possible to prepare colloidal solutions of chitosan containing only calcium -glycerophosphate (without sodium ions) undergoing a sol-gel phase transition at the physiological temperature of the human body. It has also been shown that it is possible to further enrich the obtained cellular scaffolds with calcium ions. Using the addition of calcium carbonate, hydrogels with a physiological ratio of calcium to phosphorus (1.6-1.8):1 were obtained.
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